DOCTORS BAFFLED
—- - LIKE SLEEPING SICKNESS
WOMAN’S DEATH
SYDNEY, Sept. 12. Because he believed that the result would bo oi value to science, Esme Baron B’.gnold gave permission lor a. pbst-mortem on the body of his mother. Mrs. Nellie Eleanor Gerrnule Bignold. who died at the K-oyal North Shore Hospital on August 2, i of a complaint that had baiiled doctors.
Ik*- 1 result of that post-mortem today enabled the City Coroner (Air. .May) to return a verdict of death from natural causes, after medical evidence had been given that the woman probably was a victim of “encephalitis lethargica”—an inilamniation of the brain, causing a. form of sleeping sickness. Dr. Neil Ernest Goldsworthy, pathologist at the Royal North Shore Hospital, said that when Airs, idgnold was admitted, her ease suggested diabetes, but subsequent observation .discredited 'tha-Jv diagnosis. She died suddenly, apparently from failure of the respiration centre. Itwas his opinion, hut he could nor say definitely, that death was.due to “encephalitic, lethargica."
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 11323, 29 September 1930, Page 5
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