DEATH OF A NURSE.
THE PORIRUA INQUIRY. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Friday. The inquest concerning the death of Edith Mary Paynter, a nurse, who died at the mental hospital at Porirua on February 10, was resumed before Mr. J. S. Barton, S.M., coroner, to-day. Dr. D. D. Fenwick said lie bad read Dr. Lynch's post mortem report on the matter, and he agreed that the illness from which Miss Paynter died could not have been diagnosed in her lifetime.
The coroner found that the cause of death was a cerebral hemorrhage, due to the rupture of an aneurism in one of the small arteries at the base of the brain. lie lvould deal in writing later with the other points raised.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 46, 23 February 1929, Page 16
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