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FATAL BATHGirl ElectrocutedMKI.HOURN*. Tueaday Expert* have givon iho opinion that the death ot Barbers Rollon. 20. student. of Waftlotree lload. Boat Malvern, who was eloctroeutod yea terday wtaon sho touched a radlalor. «u caused by the rllp of a roller blind falling Into the corn of the radlalor and causing a short clrcull The whole radiator, expert* said today. waa alive when Miss Bolion, who m In her hath, reaehod for It, and the electric abock was safflclent to kill bar.Mian Bolton wnn found by her mother an hour after nho had entered the bath, and resuscitation was ap piled by four doctors for an hour without success.Had Miss Holton not been standlna In water at the time the :.hock would not have been nearly to severe.Miss Holton was a daughter of Mi 8. Bolton, manager of the Royal Hank branch. Collins Hirjel, of Hie ES and A Hank.The chairman of the Health Com mission I It. E nobertsom said —It would appear that Inspections of domestic electrical appliances should bo inadc more often This applies equally to bath heaters, which. If a leak ban been i rented .ire very dangerous.An official of the Electricity Com mission today said: —•'If tho electrical apparatus l» not defective. I hero Is no danger ol shock, but any poison Immersed I water should appro ich an elect n. »I apparatus with n good leal ol reap. and caution.Before handling n radiator or s'ldi Jar article while In n bath. a person should see that Iho current Is switch cd off. as water Is a particularly good conductor or electricity foiInIsthlaxmiofStlt;Cofo:sh15 Mi16fflByl«ifoilaianvlnr£ov19Tlpoth1acsh£Hi12II.onto15w.HNISInfir17. In fu ft.
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Echuca Riverine Herald
Echuca, Victoria, AU
Wed, May 25, 1932
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