ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 966, 5 November 1910, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

DEATH'OF WILLIAM M'MILLAN. INQUEST CONCLUDED. At the Magistrate's 'Court yesterday morning, tho' Coroner, Mr. W. R. Haselden, S.M.,- continued the inquiry into the death of William M'Millan, who was fourid.'dead in' bed'at 5 Martin Square, on Wednesday morning. Evidence given at the previous hearing was to the effect that, deceased had been : suffering of a poisoned hand and bad ..undergone an operation at the Wellington Hospital on Tuesday last. Several new witnesses were called yesterday. Henry Brittain, chemist, stated that deceased called at his shop on October 27. Witness treated him, but when the man balled again a few days later and appeared to bo worse, witness' advised him to go to the hospital : for: treatment. Dr. E. E. Brown, assistant, house surgeon at the hospital, who performed the operation on deceased, said that the man was naturally of weak physique. After the operation, witness gave him. some brandy., When he left the institution -in the afternoon he was told that' if he did not feel well he' could come back again. Evidence was. also given by the patient, who saw M'Millan to the tram, to tho effect that the man '.had to be assisted on to the tram as ho was in a very weak state and did not appear to havo full control of his senses.

The Coroner remarked that it was evidently impossible' to trace the movement of deceased from the. time he left the hospital until ho reached his home ,in tho evening.

Dr. W. Kington. Fyffe said that death was certainly not due to hemorrhage from ulcer as had been suggested at the previous hearing. AVitness was now of opinion- that death arose from natural causes (the analysis showed no trace of poison in the stomach) probably. due to the absorption of bacterial poisons coming from the wound in the hand, combined-with the exhausted constitutional condition of the man. A verdict was returned in accordance with the medical testimony. PLAYGROUND ACCIDENT. Harold 'Black, a seven-year-old lad, w.as admitted to the hospital yesterday suffering from a broken leg. It appears that while the lad was playing in the ground at the Kilbirnie School yesterday he slipped and fell. When assistance was _ rendered him it was found that his left leg had been fractured. LITTLE GIRL INJURED. A baby girl named — Davis, whose parents reside at 16 John Street, was admitted to the hospital last evening suffering from injuries to the head. It appears that the child's mother was engaged in putting up curtains, and accidentally fell over on the child, with tho distressing result mentioned. KNOCKED DOWN BY A TRAM. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) Auckland, November 4. Edward Thomas Allen, aged 36, a resident of Rangiora, Canterbury, was knocked down by a tram in Queen Street this afternoon, and was admitted to the hospital suffering from fracturo of the base of tho skull. SLIP THAT PROVED FATAL. Chrlstchufch, November 4. William O'Rorke, aged 30, was found I unconscious on his mother's farm, near Rangiora,. last night, and died during the night. He had been lifting a heavy can of milk, and either slipped or fainted, striking his head on the concrote floor of tho dairy. Ho had been suffering from a weak heart.