A police constable was about to wheel a woman into a Melbourne morgue’s freezing chamber on a steel trolley used for corpses when he saw one of her eyes flicker. Then her cheek muscles twitched. “Am I dead?” she asked. throwbackthursday
MELBOURNE, Sunday.—A woman who had been certified as dead woke up in the Melbourne City Morgue last night.A police constable was about to wheel her into the morgue’s freezing chamber on a steel trolley used for corpses when he saw one of her eyes flicker.The woman is Mrs. Sheila Baulch, about 45, whose last known address was Allenvale Station, a grazing property, at Balranald, N.S.W.
On the way the ambulance driver stopped at police headquarters to get a constable to help him take the “body” to the morgue. She did not try to speak until she was back in the ambulance. Then she sat up and asked: “Am I dead?”Constable George Sutherland. From the Age, August 20, 1956She struggled on the way to hospital and had to be restrained to prevent her leaving the stretcher.
Police do not know where she went after leaving hospital, but think she is still in Melbourne. A spokesman for Royal Melbourne Hospital said: “This is a most regrettable incident.“The normal tests to ensure that a person is dead include a check of the heart beat and breathing.“In addition, this woman had all the appearances that life was extinct. Her eyes were open and staring and she was very cold.This is the second report in a week of a woman being declared dead and later found to be alive.
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