IRONY OF FATE
MAN’S DEATH AT GOOD NEWS. A man’s death when told he was not suffering from cancer, as he had thought, was described at a llolhorn inquest on Percy Voisin Pluck, at Jersey. He had been led to believe that lie had cancer, and, on the advice of his doctor, in Jersey, went to St. Paul’s .Hospital. “The final examination had been •completed,” said the resident medical officer at the hospital, “and a doctor was telling the patient lie would he able to return home the next day, as ho was not suffering from cancer, when he gasped and lost colour.” Further medical evidence, attributed death to failure of the llveart, and a: verdict of death from natural causes was recorded.
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Hawera Star, Volume L, 20 June 1930, Page 6
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123IRONY OF FATE Hawera Star, Volume L, 20 June 1930, Page 6
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