NURSE’S DEATH AT PORIRUA HOSPITAL
CAUSE CEREBRAL HAEMORRHAGE. DECISION ON QUESTION OF TREATMENT RESERVED Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Last Night. The inquest on Edith Mary Paynter, a nurso who died at tho Mental Hospital ht Porirua on February 10th, Tyas resumed before Mr J. S. Barton, S.M., to-day. Dr. D. D. Fenwick, said ho had read Dr. Lynch’s post-mortem report in the matter, and ho agreed that tho illness from which Miss Paynter died could not have been diagnosed in her lifetime.
Tho Coroner found that Nurse Paynter diod at tho Porirua Mental hospital on Sunday, February 10th, and that tho cause of death was a cerebral haemorrhage, duo to the rupture of an aneurism in one of the small arteries at the base of the brain. He would deal with tho other points raised in writing, and they would be read by one of tho other Magistrates early in the coming week.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6844, 23 February 1929, Page 8
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153NURSE’S DEATH AT PORIRUA HOSPITAL Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6844, 23 February 1929, Page 8
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