FATAL DEFECT IN SKULL.
BOY'S PECULIAR DEATH.
The skull of Charles Ernest White, aged 11, of Maclise Buildings, Millbank Estate, who was taken ill while lie was at school, and died shortly after he arrived home, was found to be defective. The brain at one' point was covered merely by a piece of skin. " Mr. Ingleby Oddie, the Westminister coroner, in recording a' verdict of accidental death at an < inquest, said that at the point where the boy's skull -joined the spinal column the brain was not properly protected against violence. White probably received a slight jar or blow on- the back of the neck, and this caused hemorrhage at the base of - the brain... * v. • .
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18565, 24 November 1923, Page 3 (Supplement)
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