BOY’S DEATH UNDER ANAESTHETIC
INQUEST OPENED AT
(PBESS ASSOCIATION TXX.KOBAU.)
AUCKLAND, January 19,
An inquest was opened to-day, before Mr F. K. Hunt, on a boy aged six, Paurini Ammunson, who cqllapsed under an anaesthetic in the Auckland Hospital on Monday evening. Evidence was given by the father, Peter Ammunson, of Avondale, that the boy enjoyed good health, but on Sunday last he complained of stomach ache. By Monday he had developed a temperature, and a doctor • who was called diagnosed appendicitis. The boy was admitted to hospital that afternoon, but died under an anaesthetic. ‘‘We had fish for tea last Friday, and the child fold me he had swallowed a small piece of fishbone,” said Ammunson, “but the piece was apparently swallowed easily, for he did not appear to worry over it, and it did not cause him any pain.” The inquest was adjourned.
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22305, 20 January 1938, Page 4
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