The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-25
MAYBE REsUsCITATIoN IS HEROIsM,
 AT THAT.

(Note: Readers are invited to send stamped addressed envelope and ask for Illustrated booklet on Resusctation). Some correspondent sends in clipping from | an unidentified magazine or paper which de- employees, of a member of an electric service company's construction crew, after the man had been apparently killed by S3,OOO volt shock when he accidentally came in contact with Q fuse holder transformer. The two fellow worlSmen who first reached him did not waste any valuable time in calling out the local fire department or sending for a pulmotor They immediately begin giving the unconscious and apparently dead man artificial respiration by the prone-pressure method | They had been taught how to do this in the | first aid instruction which all well managed public service companies require all employees | to receive. After some ten minutes of effort ! according to the clipping the victim gasped. The story goes on to say that the two men | who applied the resuscitation treatment de- | serve Carnegie medals quite as much as any | one else who has made a heroic rescue. They showed an admirable unwilngness to give up. notwithstanding they believed the man was dead, and therefore their conduct was an ac of heroism.
 | At first l was inclined to pooh- pooh the hero canoniZaton. It seemed to me that the by islanders or fellows Of the victim showed only simple dency and a humane regard for life by making an effort even If they believed the vic | time was dead beyond recall. But when we remember how often such victims are pro | nounced' dead and abandoned without an at | tempt at resuscitation, the herosm of the men who gave this victim a chance becomes mani- | fest.
 It does require some heroism or courage or | strength of character for even a doctor to per | sist in efforts at resuscitation longer than half | an hour, especially when any other by-stander | expresses q conviction that the victim is dead. l We ought to have some sort of VOW, if not | a law. that no such victim of electric shock. | drowning asphyxiation suffocation, shall be | abandoned to death without two hours of eff fort at resuscitation. It should be made a | crime to give up or to desst from such efforts in less time than that Not that know of any authentic case of resuscitation after more than ADnArent |. | there is always the chance, Or at least the pos sbiltiy, of restoration of life, by modern meth ods, even after all hope seems gone. Anyhow don't believe 1 could forgive a cessation of ef- fort in less than two hours if the victim were | loved one of mine. | Here is lesson which fear not few doc tors have yet to learn-that the doctor should | be last and never first 10 declare such victim dead. What terrible shame for young doe tor to pronounce i.erson dead, only to have others come along later and revive the dead.
 Let us have some sort of universal under sudden death from cessation of respiration shall be entitled to two hours of our best effort
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 Are Chinese People?
 A question alias ur.sen among the women II our office and wc ask you tO settle the dispute The question is, what Is the length of Chin csc WOman'B pregnancy (M. A. Bo
 Answer--Two hundred eighty days just al though she were human.
 | 4 Defender Of Orion
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 eastern sky. ln wiBter yon "'ii 70" h''n rn evening. (hfudemfb.