DEATH OF DOCTOR

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27081, 16 May 1949, Page 6

DEATH OF DOCTOR

FOUND UNCONSCIOUS IN SURGERY

WIFE’S SUICIDE RECALLED PA AUCKLAND, May 15 Eleven months after his wife committed suicide in the surgery at his home at Onehunga, Dr Raeburn Neil Campbell, aged 45, was found unconscious in the same room on Saturday night. Artificial respiration and heart stimulants were administered by the. police surgeon, but the measures were unsuccessful and Dr Campbell died shortly after 10.30 Earlier in the evening Dr Campbell had visited a house at Remuera where, it is alleged, a married woman was assaulted. She was later admitted to the Auckland Hospital for observation of injuries to her head. Her condition to-night was not serious. Dr Campbell was found in his surgery by his father, who lived with him, shortly after 10 p.m. Mr Campbell, sen., had heard' his son arrivehome about half an hour earlier and, he went into the surgery to talk to his son when he saw him. -lying uncon-, scious on the floor. At the inquest into the. death of Mrs Vivien Rose Campbell, aged 34, last August, Dr Campbell said that after attending the arts ball on June 23 his wife had locked herself in his surgery and taken some drugs. He later found 6ome capsules on the couch and he applied artificial respiration to his wife but her condition deteriorated and she died about 4.30 a.m. on June 24. A verdict of suicide was returned by the coroner at the inquest.