DEATH CAUSED BY FISHBONE
SWALLOWED A YEAR AGO.
LONDON, February 2
The death of Brig.-Gen. G. Mackay Mackenzie, 73, of 70, Kensington Gardens, formerly of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, was due to the swallowing of a fishbone a year ago. This evidence was given at the inquest at St. Pancras Coroner’s Court yesterday, when Maud Rose Mackenzie said her brother died in the Royal Free Hospital on Monday. He swallowed a fishbone last February. “Ho was never really well after that, and he had a cough for some time,” she continutd. “A few days before Christmas he developed iironcjiitis, and we wore told that the only possibility of saving him was an operation. The fishbone was never removed.” Sir Bernard Snilsbury, who made a post-mortem examination, said that death was .due to heart failure. Mr Bentley Purchase (the coroner) : Do you think that his condition was set up by the swallowing of the fishbone?
Sir Bernard Spilsbury; It is such a condition as might have resulted from that, and apparently all the symptoms dated from that time. I think probably that his death was directly due to the swallowing of the fishbone.
A verdict of accidental death was recorded.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 16 March 1934, Page 3
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