JOHN DAVENPORT, rnc, Medical Superintendent, Shantung Road Hospital.
Q—L thine you can tell us about 40 cases you have geon?
'A—Yes, Lam the medical superintendent' s-A had to review all the eases are" have the whole list.
Q—Out of che 40 people, how y would you say have' boon [shot in the back?
'A—T have made a report in the! matter, and the Court probably' has that report.
Q—Can you tell us how many' wore shot in the back?
ALE was not pro ent in the hospital when the first lot of eases were received on the Saturday. came Inter when they had received the first dressing, and after had been operated an. Some died. T myself did not se of of cases so that T cannot give any direct personal ov i Patrick, Muir, Tsiang and Lidl ard to them, I asked Drs.
who knew about these cases, and they gave me their report on them, whicl I have embraced in this report.
Q—Can you tell the Court orally, Flow many sere shot in the back, A—T cannot state the number. fror+ or side, from what you sw esti? yourself, and from the reports of other doctors?
AxIt is all summed up in the report.
Mr. Maitland—The simplest thing would be to put the report in aa an exhibit, Witness continuing—I, myself, Jsaw nearly all the cares if not all brought in on Monday, but T have not differentiated them in. th report. T have got some notes my pocket which might help me, Twas given to understand by the, doctors who treated the eases, that No. 581 of the hospital record re-Jecived a skin wound at the back. This might have been either a hit from the back or front, '582 was a perforating wound of the chest. This, believe was from the front, was a shot through the pol via and rectum, therefore wallet could have come from either side, B84 was a shot through te stem: ach and liver, Cunderstand it war from the fron 585 waa a shot through the abdo-
[586 was a shot through the side, the bullet striking the very front, 5S7 was a shot in the upper part of the thigh and severed the fe rural artery ani escaped from the body front, the right rectus muscis through the intent:
with 10 perforations, so the shot was from the front, 589, both legs were shattoced, one had to be amputated, the hones urod in the front, amd, theve= Het attack from the the right bullet: coming fron: the through the knee going ough the joint, Being the frost of the knee, the have cine from the front.
392 wasa fen th 4 was an jury of the buttock believe, Edo not know whether it was a akin wound, ce whether went throug the fleslt of the hut: tock, Axsessor:- That would be in the rear?
'A—Not nozcasarily, Tt might be the roar, it might be the front. 594 was a small chest wound, the skin being grazed. Tt might have been either from front or back. 505 and 596 were mere bruisings 597 was, again, a perforating wound of the abdomen, with rupture of the intestines which, T was told, was received from the front, 5OS was a fracture of the thigh whi cir wae stated to be from the front.
500 was some skin wound, a slight abrasion, It might have been either from the front or back 600 was brought in dying and no report was made of where the wound was received.
These are the cases which are ro ported on for Saturday, May 30.
Mr. Maitland asked that the Court accept Dr. Davenport's re-Siei stra: gly objected, but the port as an exhibit in this case, Dr.
Court agreed to admit the docu iment at the hearing of the second bee and $9 eave the time of the doctor.
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