Tag: Morristown Memorial Hospital
This Week in Chester History…
In 1937, Edward Sliker was electrocuted while working on the N.J. Forestry Service. A cable he had used to keep a tree from splitting, slipped and touched a high voltage wire. He was treated at Morristown Memorial Hospital for burns on his extremities. Source: Mendham-Chester Tribune
This Week in Chester History…
The Mendham-Chester Tribune reported in 1937 that 30-year-old Edward Sliker accidentally electrocuted himself as he wrapped a tree with a cable, which fell and touched a high voltage wire. His coworkers helped him down from the tree after he had become unconscious. He was taken to Morristown Memorial Hospital with burns on his hands, arms, feet, and legs. He survived the incident.
This Week in Chester History…
In 1957, Patricia Cross of Pleasant Hill Road became Morris County’s first polio patient of the year. She previously had received two Salk anti-polio vaccine shots, but was diagnosed with paralytic polio at Morristown Memorial Hospital. In 1956, by this time last year, the county already had three cases. Source: The Mendham-Chester Tribune.
