ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
[Per Press Association.! WELLINGTON, Mat 14. At the inquest on the boy Kilsby, who died under chloroform, the evidence showed that all precautions had been taken. Death was from pure misadventure, and a verdict was returned accordingly. Dr Chappie was asked if he could explain why there had been so many deaths of late in the colony while patients were under the influence of chloroform. He replied that he could not give an explanation, except that climatic conditions might have had something to do with the matter. He had performed one hundred and thirty-four operations under chloroform, and the present was the first death. LTSTVERCARGILL, May 14. A most lamentable accident occurred yesterday to Lucy Williams, wife of a labouring man at Duck Creek, Bluff Eoad. She was cooking at an open fire, and reaching up to hang a pan, her skirt took fire. Her clothes were immediately in a blaze. The ;children ran out screaming and attracted the attention of the father, who was working some distance away. When he reaphed the house he found his wife frightfully injured. She . died this forenoon. The poor woman was only thirtysix years' of age, and leaves a family of ten.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5566, 15 May 1896, Page 4
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