MENTAL PATIENT'S DEATH
r The dead body of a male patient was tound hanging from a,tree in the orchard at the Porirua Mental Hospital about 520 yesterday afternoon. This morning an inquest on the deceased, who was 49 years of age, was held at Porirua by the Coroner (Mr. J. S. Barton, S.M.), when a verdict was returned that death was due to selfstrangulation by hanging. Mr. Barton said that the evidence satisfied him thai 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 the attendants when he was found hanging. The evideuce showed that the deceased was one of a group who were in the orchard. He was allowed a certain amount of freedom in his own interests.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 149, 20 December 1929, Page 13
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136MENTAL PATIENT'S DEATH Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 149, 20 December 1929, Page 13
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