DEATH OF VAGRANT.
REJECTED BY HOSPITAL. CORONER CRITICISES DOCTORS. [BY TEI.KGUArir. —1*1? ESS ASSOCIATION.] WKLLIXdTON. Sunday. At ;ill inquest hi'ld yesterday concerning I In*, dea th of George Corrigall, aged about 56, the coroner, .Mr. E. I'age, K. M., eriliciscd the action of the hospital doctors in refusing the man readmission a couple of hours allei his discharge from prison, without holding a conference with the gaol doctor who sent him there. Evidence showed deceased to be a vagrant, careless of how he lived, and addicted to methylated and other spirits lie v.-as arrested foi vagrancy on Decern her 8. and was sent to hospital the next day On Decern lie:* 1.3 he was discharged from hospital back to (he police. Dr. Gilmer saw hnri on his arrival at the gaol and at once directed that he be returned t i the hospital, where he was refused admission On examination by Dr Cook lie was again ordered to hospital on December 15 and died there on the following day from acute endocarditis with septicaemia.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20137, 24 December 1928, Page 10
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