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Location
In St Luke's Cemetery, Bembridge, Isle of Wight Description Private Headstone. |
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Inscription
TO THE MEMORY OF OUR BELOVED SON EDWIN JAMES WHITEHEAD R.A.F.V.R. (JIM) JULY 27TH 1942 IN HIS 20TH YEAR "THEY SHALL NOT GROW OLD AS WE WHO ARE LEFT GROW OLD, AGE SHALL NOT WEARY THEM, NOR THE PASSING YEARS CONDEMN THEM. AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN, AND IN THE MORNING, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM." Further Information Son of James and Isidora Madeline Whitehead, of Bembridge. Newspaper entry : DIED UNDER ANAESTHETIC. TRAGIC INCIDENT AT TRURO. A verdict of "Death by misadventure" was recorded by the County Coroner, Mr. L. J. Carlyon. at an inquest Tuesday on James Edwin Whitehead, aged 19. of the Isle of Wight, who died as the result, of an administration of wrong anaesthetic at the Royal Cornwall Infirmary, Truro. Deceased was being prepared for an operation on a fractured wrist before he joined the R.A.F. Dr. Margaret Caroline Tait said she began administering the anaesthetic with pure nitrous oxide until she judged it time to give him 5 per cent. oxygen. He held his breath for a short time while, as patients sometimes did, and then she took off the mask and put on a rubber airway until his breathing improved. She replaced the mask and increased the oxygen to 10 per cent, and as his breathing was shallow she turned on the carbon monoxide as a stimulant. The patient remained blue around the ears, so she gave him what she thought was 25 per cent oxygen, but was really nitrous oxide. She took off the mask at once and summoned assistance. She had last used the apparatus on Saturday. Since then, however, the cylinders had been changed, unknown to her, by the theatre porter. Dr. F. D. M. Hocking attributed death to suffocation from an overdose of gas, or rather lack of oxygen. The apparatus was as safe as any machine could be. Newspaper Source : The Cornishman, 6 Aug 1942, transcript thanks to Tony Bevis |
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