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LAS VEGAS SUN August 14, 1952 Child Hospitalized by Chlorine Gas Improving ? ' -’'.i •• * ‘ --W'-fl-A1—‘lhVg.~".CW—i»-i ‘Jf—'J**. >-.d——t^yii -? v Condition of 12-year-old Carlj Richard Jensen, effected with chlorine gas at. a local swimming : pool recently is improving his physician reported last night. Although Carl has been a very: sick boy, the, prognosis looks good, the doctor'added. The child j now afflicted with, bronchial pneu­monia will continue to be in an i oxygen tent for several days more I and will not be released from the hospital for a week or 10 days j the physician predicted. The accident leading to Carl's illness occurred on Monday, when : a child tampered with a chlorine valve at the swimming pool, about a dozen swimmers were seized by coughing spells from the gas, but apparently Carl’s was the most serious case involv-1 ed. ’ Chlorine gas was the type used- in World War I, the physician ex- > plained. The gas leads to a fluid j I in the lungs, called oedema, which i is conducive to. bronchial pneu- ! monia, he added. . f The son of Mrs, Frosty Jensen, 1 secretary of Wilbur ,Clark at the Desert Inn, Carl is said to have been in good health -when he went to the'swimming pool on j Mondayfi-r. . J j Returned, by a policeman to his I home after the accident, Carl was | discovered lying pn the, couch by Billy Waite, 6. Billy'told his ‘mother, Mrs. Robert Waite, of the boy’s condition, and she in turn notified water inspector Maynard' Chambers, another neighbor. Chambers rushed the gasping * HI child to the hospital for emer­gency treatment'Mrs. Jensen said. Suit may be' fil,ed aainst the : operator of the Old Ranch Pool, Carlisle Wilcpx, by Mrs. Jensen’s attorney, Louis Wiener, who is. awaiting final indication in the child’s illness.