INQUEST

Grey River Argus, 21 May 1942, Page 3

INQUEST

A formal verdict, in accordance with medical evidence, was returned bv Mr. M. J. Fogarty, J. P. Acting Coroner, r-f the "conclusion of an inquest yesterday afternoon into the death 'of Robert Harry Eatwell, which occurred at his res'dence. Cobden, on Mav 14. Edward Frank Fatweil, son of deceased, said that his father was 64 veers of age. He had been employed for three years ec a labourer by the Grevmouth Borough Council. " Six months ago be vqas an inmate of the Grey Hospital, where he was treated for a leg f Injury. He Presumed his, employment at the end. of February, and

had worked constantly since. He never complained to witness that he was other than well. He died in bed on the morning of May 14. Dr. W. A. Bird said that the principal finding at the post-mortem examination was a condition of extensive disease of the coronary arteries of the heart, associated w'th a ma" ,r--ed degree of degeneration of the main arteries of the body, Death was due to an attack of coronary _ occlusion, consequent upon a condition of coronary arterial degeneration. Mr. Fogarty returned a formal verd'et, in accordance with the medical evidence.