DEATH UNDER ANAESTHETIC
GIRL S SUGDEN COLLAPSE I lei I’.-- -• \-ssuciaikc. • AUCKLAND, June 3. When an anaesthetic was being administered to prepare Doreen Lily Paton, aged 18, for a tonsil operation in a city surgery yesterday forenoon, the girl collapsed and died. The girl developed a cold and a sore throat a few days ago. On Tuesday a doctor was called. Yesterday he called for Ihe girl in his car and took her to his surgery, and had only started to administer the anaesthetic, when she died. Her father, William Paton, labourer. residing at Epsom, gave evidence that the girl had complained that she found it hard to breathe. The coroner, Mr Hunt, adjourned the inquest sine die.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 131, 4 June 1937, Page 6
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