Show I NURSE TELL TEllS HOW V r MISTAKE A KE CAUSED DEATH i I Solution of Acid Was Mistaken l for Distilled Water Vater In Hospital l I CHICAGO March Dy 4 By The Associated Pre Three Press Press Three Three student nurses all aU young oung pretty and of the tho flapper type tIle tearfully told of theIr parts in a mistake which re- re resulted re resulted suited In the deaths yesterday at Columbus Memorial hospital of five born new new born born girl babies and the ser ser- serIous ser serious ious of two others one of which may not recover The nurses told Dr Herman N Bundesen city health commission commissioner er or that through a mistake In which all three ha had l a part lart the babies were feda fea mild mUd solution of boric acid which was thought to have been distilled water to which the deaths of the babies ranging In Inage inage Inage age from five live days to two weeks were attributed The babies were given the fatal potions last la-at Saturday while the mothers of ot four of the infants lay In adjoining maternity wards TOday some sorno of the mothers In a avery avery very critical condition while po policemen doctors and a I coroners coroner's star staff attempted to fix responsibility for the tho unwitting mistake LEIT ADOPTION The nurses nurse made their statements to 10 Dr Br Bundeson while a u coron coron- coroner's coroner's ers er's jury still was investigating an and had not formally determined the cause causo of the deaths l Four our of the tho mothers a Il short time before their babies babiCs lives were snuffed fed led up had enjoyed a a visit from the little mites of ot humanity The fifth mother who gave birth to a daughter out of wedlock hall hail left lefther lefther lefther her baby at the hospital for tor adoption tion when she departed a II few v days ago A A sixth baby still is in a serIous condition but a a seventh Is apparently recovering reco Three ree other babes baloes also had been fed of the tha boric acid solution but apparently ha have e suffered no DO ill of- of ef effects The Tho nurses are aro Irene Ireno Schwartz and Aileen Callahan on day duty and Margaret Cuff night nurse MIss Illse Schwartz said that be- be before before be before fore going orf oft duty last Saturday she made ronde a a fresh solution of ot boric acid used for tor sterilization purposes LEIT EV TO COOL 1 Miss fIss Callahan who relieved her placed It In a I large bottle bottlo on II a window sill to cool MI Miss Cuff said she thought the bottle contained I distilled water She Sha began giving the tho babies the solution Saturday inight night an later Inter passed the tho bottle to other nurses who used It for forthe tire the same e purpose until Monday morning They probably will vill fy fy before the tho coroners coroner's Jury tomor tomor- tomorrow row |