INQUEST.
SUDDEN DEATH OF UNION
SECRETARY,
Mr 11. W. Bishop, District Coroner, hi eld an inquest at tho Courthouse today concerning the death of Edward Kennedy, who died suddenly at Dr R. Thomas's rooms on Saturday.
James Inbcster said that on Saturday he was at Dr Thomas's surgery when deceased came in. Witness did not know deceased, but Kennedy complained to him of a, pain in the chest.. A few minutes later deceased collapsed. Louie Woo'lie.y said that, she had kept a, boardinghou.se for her mother and had known deceased for about- six weeks. He had never complained of ill-health.
James Ferguson Duncan, medical practitioner, said be had mads- a post mortem examination. Ho found tho lungs normal huti in his opinion death was due to valvular disease of thheart- Hard riding on a bicycle wor.li be bad for such a complaint. Frederick Ellis, trades union secretary, said that deceased was secretin y -if the New Zealand Agricultural and Pastoral Workers' Association. He last saw him at lunch time on Saturday. He then complained of a pain in his chest. Kennedy had been in poor health during the last six years and witness was not at all surprised to hear of his sudden death. A verdict was returned that death was due to heart failure, the result of organic valvular disease of the heart.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 12193, 17 December 1917, Page 6
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