THE WRONG BODY
A HOSPITAL MISTAKE
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, October 24. A remarkable'mistake, affecting the identification of a dead body, occurred in Duuedin last Friday when, through an error on the part of an attendant at the public hospital, a resident whose wife had died in the institution had the experience of viewing the corpse of an unknown woman which was brought to his house. He had insisted that his wife's body be brought home before burial, and a body which he presumed to be that of his wife was taken to his residence. On the coffin being opened. it was found that the wrong body had been forwarded from the hospital. The explanation of the unfortunate occurrence is that, following the postmortem, the attendant whose duty it is to attend to such matters inadvertently effected a substitution of the labelled shrouds when replacing them. Had the mistake not been discovered the bodies would have been buried in the wrong places and under wrong names. ■>
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 100, 25 October 1933, Page 15
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166THE WRONG BODY Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 100, 25 October 1933, Page 15
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