CASUALTIES.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17410, 22 March 1922, Page 9

CASUALTIES.

inquests. The Coroner, Mr H. Y> TViddowson, held an inquest yesterday touching the death of Ann Jane Davidson, a married woman, a.ged 52 years, who died at her ihome in Barbadocs street on March 19th. Dr. A. B. Pearson, ■pathologist at the Christchurch Hospital, who held a post-mortem examination of deceased, said death was duo to the degenerate cor dition of the heart musel6s, brought abi>ut by tlhe chromo over-distension of the lunga. Death might have occurred at ahjj time. Henry Davidson, husband of deceased, said she had been under treatment for stomach troubles for two years. She had been in pain on Sunday afternoon, but seemed to recover. He left the room arid on returning found her dead. 'A verdict was returned in accordance with th& mfedical testimony. Another inquest dealt with the death of Margaret wwitalla, n einglo woman, aged 22 years, who di«d at the Public Hospital oai March 191; hj, Dr. A. B. Pearson, who nwde a post-mortem examination of tlw body,, said death waa dt<j to eub-acut& nephritis, associated witi pregnancy. Other evidence was giron by Dr. C; J. Campbell and Jamee Laird, 14 Ira-wsoxi;stfe.it, Sydenham, in wh<fcQ houee deceased was staying. The Ooroner's finding was in accordance with tlhe medical evidence.

A married woman was admitted to the hospital last suffering from the effects of poison, which wa3 allegedly 'Belf-administered.. After receiving medical attention, her condition was satisfactory. . While sheep-shcanng near Lake Coleridge yesterday, a man named Taylor severed the artery in his arm, and had to be removed to the Christchurch Hospital. He underwent an operation last night, and his condition was subsequently satisfactory. A married tnan bzutigu Georg© Ja-mss Butcher, residing at 128 Hills road, St. Albans, met with an accident while motor-cycling from Akaroa yesterday. While riding down a hill the brake failed to act, and a lady passenger in the side-car jumped out, causing the machine to overturn. Butcher received a fractured leg. and'was removed to the hospital. . The passenger suffered a sprained wrist.

(PRESS ISBOCIATIOH UXEGBAM9.) AUCKLAND, March 21. John Gladwin Vercoo, 40, farmer, of Putaruru, was struck by a tram in Qu6en street, and died in the hospital four hours later. He had only one eye. He was crossing the street when, apparently, he stepped right in front of the tram. A married woman, Mrs.Jean Reid, 29, was found dead at her residence in Grey Lynn at noon to-day, with a rubber tube from a gas iron connexion in Mr mouth. She had been in illhealth. Thomas Leigh, messroom steward m the Ar&hura, was'found dead at the bottom <f the companion way of the vessel. Evidence was given at the inquest that the deceased and two others Slept in the smoking room on Monday night. The body was found at 6 aim., clothed in pyjamas. r Owing to the severe injuries to deceased's head, the Coroner ordered a post-mortem. -