CASUALTIES.
An inquest was held at the Morgue yesterday afternoon touching the death of Susan Brown a, child who died in Mrs Irvine's Nursing Homo, Caledonian road, on Wednesday. Mr H. W. Bishop conducted the enquiry, and aftor hearing tho evidence, which showed that the child.was weak and delicate, the jury returned a verdict that the cause of death was tubercular meningitis. An elde-rly man named Weimar Inch was admitted to tho hospital yesterday, suffering from serious internal injuries. It seems that Inch was working on a viaduct at Sloven, Creek, beyond Broken River, and while pushing a cement truck along a cutting slipped and fell a distance of about 20 He was conveyed to Dar'field, where the doctor, after an examination, recommended that be be taken to the Chrieitchurch Hospital. Hβ was ao oordingly brought on to t»ho institution; and enquiries last evening elicit>ed the information thn.t ho was then in about the same condition as he Tvas on admittance.
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Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13110, 8 May 1908, Page 9
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