DEATH AT HOSPITAL
MAN READY TO GO HOME THOUGHT TO BE HEART FAILURE Considered to be well enough to ba sent home, Mr. Leslie Albert Hill, aged 37, of 9 Queen Street, Ellerslie, collapsed and died in the Auckland Hospital yesterday morning. At an inquest opened in the afternoon before .Air. Wyvern Wilson, S.M., coroner, Dr. R. F. Wilson said deceased had been under treatment for anaemia and was on the point of being discharged when his death occurred. Dr. Wilson said deceased had been admitted to the hospital on July 2S and had been operated on in order to help him toward recovering from anaomia. The operation had been successful and deceased's condition was thought i:o be excellent. Witness had made a prel miliary examination. It was not poisible to form a definite opinion of the cause of death, but it was probably die to sudden cardiac failure. The inquest was adjourned until Friday to enable a post-mortem ev animation to be made.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22493, 10 August 1936, Page 8
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