PATIENT’S DEATH
Collapse Under Anaesthetic ■'l find that iho operation was properly performed, and the anaesthetic skilfully administered.” said the coroner. Mr. E. Gilbertson, .1.1’.. at an inquest yesterday on Violet Victoria Agnes MacKenzie married woman, aged 35. of I’orutu Street, Lower Hutt. She died at Wei lington Hospital on July 22. while undergoing an operation for goitre. Dr. S. I). Ithind said that cardiac <•<■: lapse occurred during the operation, while the woman was under anaesthetic. "This very tragic wcurrence is well known to take place in such cases, and could no r have been foreseen, or prevented,” said the doctor.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 259, 29 July 1937, Page 5
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