Gas Danger To Elderly
(N.Z. Press Association)
WELLINGTON. August 24 Gas equipment was a real danger to elderly people with impaired faculties, said the Coroner (Mr P Keesing) at an inquest today. The inquest was on an 85-vear-old widow. Lucy Catherine Barras She was found dead in her Resolution street home. Lyall Bay. on July I
“This is yet another case of an elderly woman being overcome by coal gas from a gas jet left on. but unlighted," the Coroner said. I
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29910, 25 August 1962, Page 12
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