"CAUSED BY X-RAY."
TORTURED MANS SUICIDE. * r LONDON. September 3. \n unusual tragedy was revealed at !j the inquest at Blackpool into the death of Harold Dixon, n clerk; who attended f a hospital in March to undergo an X-ray g examination. He afterwards com- i plained of a painful shrivelled patch on ; I his back, asserting that it was the result . f of an X-ray burn. TJis wife gave evidence that Dixon subsequently suffered torture, which the doctors were unable to relieve, arid finally he committed suicide. TV Coroner adjoum»d the inquest., statins that he desired a thorough e_- 3 plana tion.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 217, 11 September 1923, Page 5
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