YOUNG WOMAN'S DEATH UNDER ANAESTHETIC
; « INQUEST ADJOURNED (PBESS ASSOCIATION TEI.BOBAM.J AUCKLAND, June 3. When an anaesthetic was being administered to prepare Doreen Lily Paton, aged 18, for a tonsil operation in a city surgery yesterday morning, the girl collapsed and died. The girl developed a cold and sore throat a few days ago. On Tuesday, a doctor was called. Yesterday, he called for the girl in his car and took her to the surgery and had only started to administer the anaesthetic when she Trie girl's father, William Paton, a labourer, residing at Epsom, gave evidence at the invest to-day that the girl had complained that she had found ft hard to breathe. TT The Coroner (Mr F. C. Hunt) adjourned the inquest sine die.
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22110, 4 June 1937, Page 17
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