DEATH IN BATH.
WOMAN OVERCOME BY GAS FROM CALIPHONT. FAULTY INSTALLATION. CHRISTCHURCH, July 27. When William D. M. Jamieson, an employee of the Post and Telegraph Department, at Rangiora, returned te hia home about 11 o’clock on Saturday night he found his wife, Kathleen Nancy Jamieson, aged 29 years, dead in the bath. She had been in good health and cheerful spirits when he left the house three hours earlier. At an inquest the District Coroner (Mr. H. A. Young, S.M.) returned a verdict that death was due to asphyxiation, Mrs. Jamieson having accidentally inhaled the products of the combustion of gas in a caliphont not properly installed in that it was not provided with a flue to carry these products to the open air.—(P.A.)
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Wairarapa Age, 28 July 1936, Page 4
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