A VAGRANT'S DEATH
HOSPITAL DOCTORS CRITICISED Electric Telegraph—Press Association WELLINGTON, This Day. An inquest was held yesterday on the body of George Corerigall, about 56, when the coroner (Mr E. Page) criticised the action of hospital doctors in refusing the man admission a couple of hours after his discharge without holding conference with the gaol doctor. The evidence showed deceased to be a vagrant careless of how he lived and addicted to methylated and other spirits. Following his arrest for vagrancy on Bth December, he was sent to hospital next day. On 13th he was discharged from hospital and sent back to the police. Dr Gilmer saw him on arrival at th© gaol and at once directed that he be returned to the hospital, where he was refused admission.
On examination by Dr Cook, he was again ordered to the hospital on the lotli inst. and died there on the 16th from acute endocarditis, with septicaemea.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11025, 22 December 1928, Page 6
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156A VAGRANT'S DEATH Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11025, 22 December 1928, Page 6
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