NEUROSIS CAUSED BY ACCIDENT
WOMAN AWARDED HEAVY DAMAGES. (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) (Rec. 11.55 p.m.) Sydney, September 10. Mrs Ellen Drew, of Woollahra, a suburb, who fell from a tram and was injured, was to-day in the Supreme Court awarded £1720 damages against the Government Transport Department in circumstances regarded as most unusual. The medical evidence was that Mrs Drew had since the accident contracted what is known as Parkinson’s disease—a persistent tremor of the hands, a fixed expression of anxiety, salivation and rigidity. In fact, all her former cheerfulness had gone. Medical evidence for the defence, however, conflicted, it being alleged that Mrs Drew’s neurosis was of the “anxiety” type and was associated with her litigation and the presence of several doctors at her bedside.
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Southland Times, Issue 22992, 11 September 1936, Page 7
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