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eport to to help. (d) Dr. Ashton then went out into Leppings Lane at around 3.30pm to 3.35pm and found that there was only one ambulance there. (e) Dr. Ashton found that there was no triage system in operation to identify those most in need of medical aid so he organised a triage system himself as to whom to put in the ambulance. (f) Dr. Ashton recounted how there was no steady flow of ambulances until between 3.45pm and 3.50pm. Once they began to arrive he and a local practitioner worked together sorting out the casualties and dispatching them in ambulances. (g) It was not until then that "an anaesthetist arrived from somewhere and fire engines came with resuscitation equipment, but all of this was really too late". Dr. Ashton took the view that, by 4.30pm it was "all over". (h) Dr. Ashton recorded his view that "on this occasion crowd safety took second place to crowd control" and that the emergency service was "woefully inadequate". He recognised the difficulty of assessing how many lives might have been saved by a more timely response, but clearly his statement raised this issue most clearly. -14-
Mr. Eccleston Mr. Eccleston is a qualified nurse and Senior Nurse Manager who made a statement dated 18th April 1989 giving his account of the disaster in which he had been caught up after attending the match as a Liverpool supporter with his son. In his statement which is appended to this Memorial, he gives an account of the events which occurred after the match was stopped. His account of events can be briefly summarised as follows: (a) He was allowed onto the pitch by a steward when he explained he was a trained nurse. (b) He then helped the police pull casualties through the gates of the pens onto the pitch. The first casualties were conscious and recovered but they then began to pull out unconscious bodies. (c) He recalls resuscitating one young man to the point where he regained consciousness and was able to talk (pages 3-4) and then taking him on a stretcher to the St. John’s Ambulance room. (d) Later on at about 15.30 he strove to resuscitate another young man but "lost the battle for the young man’s life". He records that at that stage "we still had no equipment of any sort to work with".
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Page 3 and 4: IN THE MATTER OF THE CORONERS* ACT
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Page 11 and 12: Taylor’s findings, "it was too la
Page 13 and 14: So, despite his reservations about
Page 15: "There seemed to be a few St. John
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Page 21 and 22: decreased was, when he died, as far
Page 23 and 24: At each of them the evidence of eye
Page 25 and 26: himself up by holding onto Mr. Holl
Page 27 and 28: y a qualified person. The fact that
Page 29 and 30: whether he could have been resuscit
Page 31 and 32: injuries within seconds and irrecov
Page 33 and 34: suitable medical intervention at an
Page 35 and 36: of this evidence had been heard bec
Page 37 and 38: (iii) Moreover it meant that there
Page 39 and 40: who had been admitted to hospital w
Page 41 and 42: in their individual statements. Thi

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