INQUEST RESUMED
DEATH OF SCHOOLBOY MEDICAL EVIDENCE • ft The inquest into the death of Donald Philip Howell, aged 8, of Pikowai, which was adjourned on. Saturday morning, was resumed yesterday before Mr G. A. Brabant, J.P, District Coroner. Constable F. M. Fuller gave evidence that he had received a edit from Dr Appleby on the aftei*noon of the Bth. The doctor had been unable to state the cause of death. Dr F. J. Appleby deposed .that at about 3.30 p.m. on Friday, December Bth, Mr R. A. Howell carried the dead body of his child into the surgery, and he was informed of the history of the cose. He was unable to state the cause of death. Witness detailed the results of a post mortem examination and ,sai<i that in his opinion death was .due to a fulminating type of inflVjM o * pneumonia of such a rapid type that no treatment would have been of any avail, had the boy had treatment. The Coroner returned a verdict that Donald Philip Howell died at Pikowai, Matata, on Friday, Bth of December, and that death was due to a fulminating type of influenzol pneumonia. ~
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 100, 13 December 1939, Page 4
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192INQUEST RESUMED Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 100, 13 December 1939, Page 4
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