DEATHUNDER ANAESTHETIC
PATIENT AT FOUR HOSPITALS.
OPERATION FOR BRAIN TUMOUR.
By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, Last Night. An inquest into the death of Maxwell Croskery, aged 26, salesman, of Wellington, who died under an anaesthetic in°a private hospital, this morning, was opened and adjourned to permit of a post mortem examination being made. A. "W. Croskery, Wellington, said his son h..d been under treatment at Auckland, Wellington and Hanmer Springs and had been removed to Lewisham Hospital at the end of December .to undergo an operation. The operating surgeon, Dr. Stanley Foster, told witness that his son’s trouble was a tumour on th© brain. Pressure had been relieved by taking a portion of it away, but a further operation was necessary. The second operation was to have taken place to-day, but his son died under an anaesthetic.
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Taranaki Daily News, 29 January 1931, Page 5
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