Dentists - Doctors - Inventors - Medicine - Science
Dec. 12, 1957 - Nurse is Heroine of the train crash: Heroine of the Leweisham train disaster was nurse Daphne Steer - who tunneland into the debris in her dance dress - to aid the injured.. For three hours, she and a doctor crawled through the wreckage aiding the Victims - and she used a lipstick with which to mark an M on the foreheads of people to whom Morphia had been administrated - as it would have been dangerous had any other doctor administrated a further dose.. She had been waiting at St. John's Station when she heard the crash - and she got to work immediately without any thought for herself on dangers in climbing through the tottering wreckage.. Photo shows Nurse Daphne Steer - the heroine of the disaster
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13184151
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46930474
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(c) Keystone Pictures USA/ZUMAPRESS.com/Mary Evans
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Keystone Pictures USA
