CORONER OUTSPOKEN
DEATH OF A WOMAN BODY EXHUMED (Per Press Association.) DUNEDIN, hist night. Outspoken comment on several aspects of the case was made by tlm coroner, Air. -L R. Bartholomew, S.M., at the conclusion to-dav of the inquest into the circumstances of the dentil of .Mora .May M;tcktm/.ie, aged git, whose body was exhumed at Anderson’s Hay cemetery on. April 24. The coroner found that the actual cause of death, peritonitis, arose from the effect of a criminal act. A large part of the evidence of Dr, A. S. Moody was taken up with an outline of his responsibilities in the case, and he also detailed the custom of members of the British Medical Association in such circumstances. The coroner subsequently gave 'his views on the propriety of medical practice, and criticised a statement issued by the Director-General of Health, which ho described as “most unfortunate and mischievous in effect.’’ He also condemned the burial of the deceased before a death certificate had been issued, and criticised the action of the public hospital authorities in not placing the deceased on the dangerously or seriously ill list while she was in the institution.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19028, 30 May 1936, Page 14
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193CORONER OUTSPOKEN Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19028, 30 May 1936, Page 14
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