Leper Scouts Save Man
p. 31 · Read in the full issue
THREE Boy Scout patients at the Fiji Leprosy Hospital, Makogai, saved the life of a young man who had picked up a live electric wire. The wire had been broken during the felling of a coconut palm.
While one boy ran to have the current switched off, the other, using rubber-soled shoes as insulating pads, removed the badly-burned man from the wire. They carried him to hospital on a stretcher made from Scout poles and shirts. The boys had gained their first-aid badges three weeks previously.