MENTAL PATIENTS’ SUICIDE
ATTENDANTS ABSOLVED FROM BLAME.
Yesterday morning an inquest concerning the death of a male patient of Porirua Mental Hospital, whose body was found banging from a tree at the institution the previous afternoon, was held at Porirua by the Coroner-(Mr. J. S. Barton. S.M.). A verdict that death was due to self-strangulation by hanging was returned. Mr. Barton said that the evidence satisfied him that all due care as a patient had been bestowed on the deceased by the staff and medical officers, and that proper measures had been taken by (he attendants when he was found hanging. The evidence showed that the deceased, who was 49 years of age. was one of a group who were in the orchard where the tree was. He was allowed a certain amount of freedom in his own interests.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 75, 21 December 1929, Page 4
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139MENTAL PATIENTS’ SUICIDE Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 75, 21 December 1929, Page 4
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