ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1546, 16 September 1912, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

• .REFUSED OPERATION'AND. DIED; ; Tlie, district,, ecroucr, Drl Jt'AßUu'r, S.M., held an inquest at the Magistrate's Court -on ■ Saturday morning concerning ths death of, -Michael .O'.V'lahcrty.. .'... Evidento wiis.given; to the effect.that as deceased'was leaving- a.ptihii'chouse,■■■"in Adelaide. Jtoad..on. August 28 he! slipped hiitl',,feir tn.tha footpath. . T[c was picked up. ami taken home; biit later was romoveditorithe hospital., ~...■.. ......";' '..','_ Dr. Uerdwfck Siuitli, ; superintendent of the- Wellington Hospital, stated that decc,a,<y{\d..when, admitted on.-.thd evejiiii? ci August.' 2p.'-was.. sufl'eriiig from- a cqmpamid.frfwtnro of both bones of the right J0;, , . :,.!?omo:,tiine, later blood, poisoning set in, with the result that the injured man died on September 1(1. ' ThtiVpatieiit was not in a ftocd sh'te of health when admitted; to the institution. ■'■ ]le • had refused to . linvß' the -limb amputated. . ;,. '~. . . ' 'Phfrcaroijpi-'roturned a vmlicMh'at-dc-era?:d met his death by blood'.poisoning eifperveiiijig drt atractui'e ot':.the les, - YnOC'KED DOWK 1!Y A CAB. ■ ." .Shirlly. , after 7 o'clock on Saturday evening a man'was knocked down by a traiflftf'-in Manners' StVccl, jiiit opposite the Clarendon -Hotel. ■■ The man; whoso name i.s. John Clonal, and who resides at • J I Aurora Terrace: If ft' the , footpath outfide the hotel and flopped into Ihe (.rack nf h'north-bound car, which, in >clinrf;c orMotorman I'. IJall.-.cainc along just then.. The brakes were applied, but the man iwas too hear the car tii escape altogether,■[..He■ was knocked down, sustninini; a cut oil the face.'.ind wns.carried by tli6'"rr.otor.titnn and'conductor' into Urittnin's I'liarmacy, where,the injury, which was slight, was attended to by T)f. Hojmiv. H|,was then sent to til? hospital'for, detailed examination, in'r.iw of internal injury.- It' was: subsequently.reported, hpwv ever, that no further injury had teen sustaineii: '" ' ■'..'' ' . .