Hazel DUNN

DUNN

Posted By: Sharon R. Becker (email)
Date: 3/9/2011 at 07:08:04

Obituary - Hazel Dunn

Iowa Recorder
Greene, Butler County, Iowa
November 27, 1918

Dies in Dentist's Chair
Mason City, Ia. -- November 25. Miss Hazel DUNN, 24 years old, died in a dentist's chair here this afternoon as she was under the influence of a temporary anesthetic of nitrous oxide and oxygen, during the extraction of a wisdom tooth. Physicians in attendance during administration of the anesthetic were unable to save her life with lung motor. She is survived by a sister and father. The gas used is said to be fatal about once in 500,000 administrations.

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, March of 2011