NEW ZEALANDER’S DEATH.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 308, 26 November 1936, Page 9

NEW ZEALANDER’S DEATH.

- OVERWORK BLAMED. LONDON, Nov. 24. Overwork is believed to have been the cause of the death of Dr. William Alfred Fitzherbert, aged 29, a New Zealander, who wa6 recently appointed medical superintendent of the Hospital for Tropical Diseases at St. Paneras. He was found dead in a bath there. The immediate cause of death was asphyxia. The Coroner adjourned the inquest to give experts an opportunity to discover the cause of the asphyxia. The secretary of the hospital, commenting on the tact that a syringe and a tube containing tablets were found in the bathroom, said that Dr. Eitzherbert, feeling over-tired, might have decided on an injection and something had gone wrong. Dr. Fitzlierbert’s father, mother and two sisters live in Wellington. His aged grandmother, from whom the news has been kept, is in London. The late Dr W. A. Fitzherbert was a son of Professor G. W. Von Zedlitz, formerly professor of modern languages at Victoria University College. He was educated in Wellington and studied medicine at the Otago University.