HEART FAILURE
A SUDDEN DEATH. Mr H. VV. Bundle, S.M., conducted an inquest at 11 Bradshaw street, South Dunedin, yesterday, into the circumstances ot the death of Mrs Catherine Bundle, 64 years of age. Mrs M. Hynes, a daughter of the deceased, said that she lived with her mother at 11 Bradshaw street. At 2 a.m. yesterday morning she hoard a call and found her mother lying on the floor, and saying that she was choking. Witness put the deceased into bed and sent for a doctor, but when ho arrived ho could only pronounce life extinct. The deceased, who had suffered from paralysis in one side for about 50 years, had had an epileptic fit three years ago. She had then been sent to the hospital for a while. Dr Murray said that he had been called into the house at 4 a.m., and had then found that the deceased was dead. On an examination of the body and from the history of the case, he considered that death was due to heart failure following degeneration of the heart. The Coroner returned a verdict in accordance with the medical evidence.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18766, 20 January 1923, Page 15
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191HEART FAILURE Otago Daily Times, Issue 18766, 20 January 1923, Page 15
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