The Hawaiian gazette., 1905-11-07
MRS. WllE'S CASE
Is HOPELESS

Mrs. W. C. Vile of Danbury, Ct.
whose husband DR.. Vile is good
friend of Hawaii was, at last ac-
counts, in a serious condition. The
Danbury News says:
The sad announcement is made to-
day that the attending physicians hold
out absolutely no hope for the recov-
cry of Mrs. William C. wife. who was
so seriously injured in headlong fall
over a balustrade and down a fight
of stairs at her home, Tarrywile, on
the afternoon Of September 30. The pa
tents strong constitution and splendid
vitality is sustaining her will in her
present condition but the end is but a
matter of time. How great the
length of that time may be the physi-
clans can not say. The end may come
within short time but her illness is
more likely to be prolonged for several
weeks. But nothing that medical skill
or science can do will avail to avert the
ultimate consequences of the injury to
her spine, from which she has been
confined to her bed in condition of
partial paralysis since the day of the
accident.
saddening to the many friends of DR..
and Mrs. Vile, who have been sharing
with the family since the time of the
accident the hope that the injury was
not as severe as was feared and that
the patient would ultimately recover.
The earlier symptoms in the case
strengthened this hope somewhat but a
positive diagnosis of the patients in
jury was impossible at that time. DIR.
Robert Il. Morris, the eminent special
ist, who was summoned from New York
on the Monday following the accident,
in consultation with Mrs. Wile's physi-
clans, agreed with them that the ex-
tent of the injury could not be posi-
lively determined within two weeks.
DR.. Morris came to this city again on
Saturday for second consultation and
1t was then determined that the pa
tient had sustained a fracture of the
spine and the destruction of the spinal
cord. That an operation would be hope
less and would hold out no prospects of
relief for the patient was also decided
at this consultation.
DR.. Vile and his family will have the
sympathy of the entire community in
their misfortune. The accident and its
results seem the sadder from the fact
that Mrs. Vile was in the full enjoy
ment of splendid health and nearly
everything that there was to make life
pleasurable, at the moment that the
slipping of treacherous rug beneath
her foot caused her to lose her balance
and to plunge down the stairway. A
CAREFUL investigation by the members
of~the family of the circumstances of
the accident lead to the belief that a
rug was responsible for the fall. Mrs.
Vile was in the narrow hallway at the
side of the stairs that lead from the
second floor of her home to the kitchen
when she fell. A bee had found its way
into the house and lodged upon a win
dow on the opposite side of the stair
way. Leaning over the balustrade
running along the hall at the edge of
the stairway, Mrs. Vile attempted to
brush the insect away with a piece
of newspaper. Her foot was upon the
the edge Of a rug, which slipped upon
the smooth floor, and losing her foot
hold, her balance was suddenly gone
and she toppled over the balustrade
and fell to the bottom of the stairs. The
situation of the rug and the patients
own story of the occurrence, which
naturally is vague, all corroborate
the theory that the accident occurred
in this manner.