DEATHS UNDER OPERATION

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17101, 5 March 1919, Page 8

DEATHS UNDER OPERATION

YOUNG LAD SUCCUMBS.

EVIDENCE OF MEDICAL MEN.

• An inquest into the death, of the 12-year-old boy, Ronald G. Laird, who died under; an. anesthetic, while undergoing an operation for the removal of his tonsils at;<th?i Auckland Hospital on -Monday, was held yesterday by Mr. J. E. Wilson, S.M. -.The deceased's parents reside at West Street, Newton. : : ':';". "\ r'"'"', Mrs. Laird deposed that while on -the Way to the hospital her soil complained, of a"pain. in 'his fright side. Ho had suffered from " a severe attack ;of influenza m'Nov&jnerlast/'.;,k'., ( - ..'• ' V The metlical evidence was' to the. effect that when the' * patient: stopped breathing artificial.. 'respiration and heart massago were: tried, without avail.'"A'' post-mortem examination vrevealed an; enlarged heart, though there were no : visible signs of; disease other ■; than the abnormal con* dition. 1= ■An enlarged tliymus . gland was not easily detected fy'superficial examination. Death ; was due to cardiac failure, probably brought on as a result of influenaa, ; '~S',C \ '..■?•-'•' v.- .;.,,* • JVA.verdict in accordance with 'the medixst testimony was retninedi the.'coroner remarking X that v appar»Kitly : [everything possible nad been ? done lor the patient by the hospital authorities. ~';

RETURNED SOUNDER'S TATE.

, - MINOR; OPERATION* FATAL, . fnt faw*tenMrasii Assoouno!?.]

•■'■■>;. .. INVEROARGILL, Tuesday. . A returned*soldier, Gilbert Duncan, 31 years of age/died under an.anaesthetic at the Public Hospital > oil 7 Monday, ( while undergoing an operation for adenoids.

THAMES LADY INJURED.

WEDLINQTON'MOTCR ACCIDENT.

fa Gentles, who ; died in Wellington on Monday night. as the result of a motor accident the preceding 'Saturday, was the. wife of ; Sergt,_-Major, Gentles, formerly of the E.N.Z.A., who- has been a resident of Wellington for.ovci forty years. Sergt. Major Gentles, who .was-in the motor-car with his wife, had'a, - rib broken. ,1, His sister, Mrs. ;E. Gartw;righti of; Thames, was also injured, and' an operation is to be performed. - ; ■ .r-.>^".] A ~ > "