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MOST of the members of the British Association delegation to the jubilee meeting of the Indian Science Congress Association have now returned, and one of them has kindly told us the circumstances of Dr. W. W. Vaughan's lamentable accident at Agra. It appears that Dr. Vaughan, with Mrs. Vaughan and other members of the delegation, had gone to the Taj Mahal before moonrise on the night of the party's arrival at Agra. In the darkness, he missed his footing on the upper of two terraces between which there is a fall of several feet, without any parapet. He fell on to the lower terrace, and his leg was broken above the knee. Help was obtained from other members of the delegation, and also, very fortunately, from an Indian friend of one of them, who, as a resident in Agra, knew what to do. But there was a weary wait for the sufferer before an ambulance could be got, during which he retained both consciousness and, by all accounts, the bravest bearing. The Thomason Hospital at Agra received him with every attention. It is now known that the leg, which had not been healing satisfactorily, was amputated on Monday, January 24 ; a private message on the following Thursday spoke of the patient's condition as “improving”, and a press bulletin on January 31 appeared equally favourable.
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Accident to Dr. W. W. Vaughan. Nature 141, 236 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141236c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/141236c0