Editorial July 1, 1905 Issue

A Pathetic Incident

Archibald McLellan

The following news item appeared in the New York Sun of June 21:—

"Twenty minutes after an injection of diphtheria antitoxin had been given by a Board of Health inspector on Monday afternoon to Yetta Green, seven and a half years old, of 49 Forsyth Street, the girl died. Coroner Scholer is investigating.

"Doctor Darlington of the Health Board said yesterday that the inspector administered the injection as a preventative against diphtheria, from which the girl's infant brother was suffering. Death was probably caused, he thought, by the presence of a bubble of air in the syringe. The anti-toxin was in good condition, but such a bubble might cause death in twenty minutes, as in the present case.

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