INQUEST CONCLUDED
♦ WOMAN’S DEATH FROM APOPLEXY A verdict that Margaret Herbert, a married woman, aged 44 years, of 362 Barbadoes street, died on December 16, 1937, from hsemorrhage of the brain (apoplexy) was returned at an inquest held yesterday before Mr E. C. Levvey, Coroner, The verdict was in accordance with the report of a post-mortem examination by Dr. A. B. Pearson, pathologist at the Christchurch Public Hospital. Harry Ernest Herbert, the husband, said that his wife bad generally enjoyed good health, On the evening when she died she had drunk about a bottle of stout, and had become ill. He put her to bed, and gave her aspirin tablets at her request. At 10.45 p.m. he woke up and got up to see how his wife was, but she made no response. A doctor who was called stated that she was dead.
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22317, 3 February 1938, Page 15
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143INQUEST CONCLUDED Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22317, 3 February 1938, Page 15
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