RARE FATAL ACCIDENT.
" The cau.sp of this child's death was syncope, due to an air embolism affecting tlio heart. As this occurred during an operation, although properly performed, my verdict must bo ono of death by misadventure." These observations wero made by the St. Pancras coroner. Dr. W. Bentley Purchase, after inquiring into a case rare to medical science which involved tho death of Sheila Muriel Richards, aged 5, at Hampstead. Dr. W. J. O'Donovan, who made a postmortem examination, had described his discovery of air in the child's heart. This, he stated, apparently passed in through a broken blood-vessel in tho neck near tlio wound caused by the operation. The theory of the doctor who performed the operation was that the air got in after death, possibly duripg prolonged artificial respiration* -
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21112, 20 February 1932, Page 2 (Supplement)
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132RARE FATAL ACCIDENT. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21112, 20 February 1932, Page 2 (Supplement)
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