SUDDEN DEATH.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 66, 17 March 1916, Page 2

SUDDEN DEATH.

IXQUEST HELD. The inquiry in connection -with the t death "of Jfary Anderson, a married i, woman, 54 years of age, who died r suddenly at her residence, Clarence I StreeJ, Pousonby-j was conducted by Mr. - F. V. Frazer, S.M., this morning. 7 Peter Anderson, a fireman, in the emr ploy of the New Zealand Railways, stated - that deceased was his mother. She had, t been suffering from epilepsy for several I ', years, and had been treated by Dr. Owen! , four years agp, The husband of deceased, Alfred An- . derson, said-deceased was in her usual 1 state of health when he left home in the • morning. On arriving home at 5.20 p.m. '" he found deceased lying on the floor. Hβ • thought she was suffering from a fit, to • which she had been subject for \\w last a 10 or 12 years. He sent for Dr. Keller, who arrived about v quarter of an hour c ' atpr - Dr. r. M. Keller depos'-'d that when he £ arrived at the 1ioi:?p deceased had been I ~ I deaef'about an hour, lie had made a (. post-mortem, and in his opinion death ;. was due to degeneration of the heart, d accentuated by 'ii probable epileptic t seizure. | j, Tho Coroner returned a verdict in ac-j cordance with the medical evidence. [