FOUND DEAD IN BATH
NEW ZEALAND DOCTOR IN LONDON ADJOURNMENT OF INQUEST (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) LONDON, 24th November. Overwork is ./believed to be the cause of the death of Dr. William Alfred Fitzherbert, aged 29, a New Zealander recently appointed medical superintendent of the Hospital of Tropical Diseases at St. Pancras. He was found dead in a bath there. The immediate cause of his death i.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 fact that ,a syringe and a tube containing tablets were found in the bathroom, said that Dr. i Fitzherbert, feeling overtired, might have decided on an injection and something had gone wrong. Dr. Fitzherbert’s father, mother and two sisters are in Wellington and his aged grandmother, from whom the news has been kept, is here.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 26 November 1936, Page 3
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