ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 26 October 1928, Page 9

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

DEATH HASTENED BY FALL. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Oct. 25. Having fallen from a first-floor window of the public hospital on to the street pavement below, Joseph bom mer, a farmer of Fernside, was carried back into hospital in a dying condition on the night of -October 13. The inquest was concluded to-day. The evidence of Dr. Pearson was that death was due only partly to the fall, from which the injuries and shock were serious. Sommer suffered also from, atheroma, or the gradual -thickening of the blood vessels, and cerebral thrombosis with softening, which wblild have caused! death within a- few days, the fall only hastening his end' and being a contributory factor. The coroner found death was- due to atheroma, cerebral thrombosis and thrombosis, and softening and- shock, associated with injuries received through falling out of a window of the Christchurch hospital, a distance of 30 feet to th© asphalt below. The coroner added that in his oninion there was no evidence of neglect on the part of the hospital authorities or the nurses.. Dr. Pearson's evidence satisfied! him that the accident only hastened death by a- few days.