FARM WORKER'S DEATH.
PNEUMONIA FOLLOWS INJURY
EVIDENCE AT THE INQUEST
IUY TELEGRAPH.—OWN CORRESPONDENT. I HAMILTON. Wednesday.
An adjourned inquest into tho death .if 'Adam Lind Bruce, a farm band, aged EC, ■who was injured by a falling tree on a larm at Wsiiorongorrmi, Tr Aroh;i, on ' ?,-.l was huld before Mr Wvvern ,vv I son, S.M., this afternoon James N Milrv). dairy farmer. of \Vaiororigomai, said the accident happened when a dead pme stump which was being dug out of a swamp fell on deceased's Dr. A. G. Wadtllell stated that he made ii post-mortem examination of ti„, on October u, „t lhe "* coroner Iho lungs bore evidence of , foctjous pneumonia of not liours' duration He cou i (l " " tllu " "8 gesllon ... u, Ho. develop acute pneumonia It Hible that deceased was infected' fimi other pneumonia cases in the ward " may have arisen spontaneously f, on , J' debilitated condition V lm Tho verdict was that dece.swt d.cd from pneumonia, lollowing an aceidnn.,' fracture of tho right W-^entaJ
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20080, 18 October 1928, Page 14
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