WOMAN’S DEATH.

Wairarapa Age, 30 May 1936, Page 5

WOMAN’S DEATH.

CORONER MAKES OUTSPOKEN COMMENT. VIEWS ON THE PROPRIETY OF MEDICAL PRACTICE.

DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF HEALTH CRITICISED.'

DUNEDIN, May 29. Outspoken comment on several aspects of the case were made by the Coroner, Mr. Bartholomew, at the' con-’ elusion to-day of an inquest into the circumstances of the death of Mora May MacKenzie, aged 29, whose body was exhumed at the Anderson’s Bay Cemetery on April 24. The Coroner found that the actual cause of death (peritonitis) arose from criminal aborn?”’. o of the evidence of aJh- ‘ M ° od y waa taken up with an outline of Jus responsibilities in the he f 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 SserihJd ° f Health ’ he d aS - most anfortunate and m effect.” He also con‘J.® hnnal of deceased before a death certificate had been issued and criticised the action of the public hospital authorities in not placing the deccased on the dangerously or seriously ill while she was in the institution.