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The Sufferers at Clerkenwell.—-The patientsadmitted into the hospitals suffering from the explosion are generally convalescent, but many of them will leave the hospital with injuries and mutilations of a life-long character. The injuries to the eyes received by many of the patients have, in most cases, terminated'much more favourably than was expected. Four of those, however, in St. Bartbolo-?\ew.8 hospital—Mrs. Abbott, Mrs. Hodgkinson, Lizzie Thompson, and Harriet Thompson—have each lost the sight of one eye. At the Boyal Free hospital Arthur Abbott has lost the use of one eye entirely, and serious doubts are entertained as to the recovery of the other. It is feared that the.poor child Annie Cross, in St. Bartholomew’s hospital, who received a severe wound in the knee-joint, will *2. i un .r£° uuiputation of the limb or excision £Pee.*j°irit- A peculiar dark discolouration is noticeable in many of the superficial scars, such as would probably be produced by gunpowder. This, it is feared, will greatly increase the disfigurement consequent on the numerous wounds of the face. Altogether the nature of the injuries has been bap-fs?J8^ous than at first seemed probable,*-British Medical Journal,
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Lloyds Weekly Newspaper
London, Middlesex, GB
Sun, Jan 26, 1868
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