BODIES INTERCHANGED
ISMII'IUY T'V WELLINGTON ij HOSPITAL BOARD \] 'I Hl,a iSaiXUTIvK TEl.eaa-'.jt.) ' WELLINGTON. August 30. [ A happening at Karori ! cemetery la.-t Saturday, when tha i bodies uf two women who had died ; that week in the Wellington Hospital were discovered by relatives to have become interchanged, was enquired into by the Wellington Hospital Beard j to-night. The bodies had been re- ' moved from tlie hospital mortuary by i two undertaken; and the funerals : were in progress before it wan learned * that the mourners were burying the ; wrong bodies. In one- instance, the ' body had aetua'.Jy been committed to ' the grave before the mistake was discovered. The board received a report from ! the medical superintendent <Dr. H. B. j McEwen), and decided that in future j more strict regulations should be en- j foiced. with the ob.iect of preventing; a similar mistake. The board also tie- | eided !o and h-tiers t>J' regret lo the j I'd j i i i i it's. I
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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21257, 31 August 1934, Page 12
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