Inquests Into Deaths Under Anaesthetics Are Necessary Says Coroner
“It is just as well, for the sake of the public generally and the medical staff, that an inquiry is made into a death under an aesthetic, because it prevents the probability of a lot of talk about the hospital,” said the 'coroner, Mr S. M. Dixon, at an inI quest in Wanganui yesterday. • The inquest concerned the death of la Maori boy, Hiraka Konui, aged six | years, a son of Mr Ross Konui, Tongariro. i The boy died from heart, failure I while undergoing an operation at the Wanganui Hospital on December 9 for congenital deformities of the feet, the operation being described as one used frequently at lhe hospital for children. After hearing medical evidence of restorative measures applied without success 4 the coroner said, that he was satisfied that every effort was made by the hospital staff to restore the child. The coroner returned a verdict ol death from natural causes—cardiac failure while undergoing an operation.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 22 December 1949, Page 8
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