LITTLE GIRL’S DEATH

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXXII, Issue 8869, 3 February 1943, Page 2

LITTLE GIRL’S DEATH

INQUIRY BEFORE CORONER j WAS ORDERED INTO HOSPITAL ! Circumstances surrounding the | death of Jean Paul, aged J years and j 7 months, a daughter of Mr and Mrs George Paul, of Waihi, who died at I her parents’ home at an early hour on Sunday morning', were investigated at an inquest in Waihi on MonI day afternoon. Mr G. Hedge, coro- [ nor. of To Aroint, presided in the uni avoidable absence of Mr W. M. Wall- | nutt., coroner. Sergeant A. Bisset represented the police. I If was shown that the little girl. | who had lived since infancy with her grandparents, Mr and Mrs Rory Paul, at Waiharakeke, and that last Saturday, as the child appeared to be seriously ill, they brought her in to Waihi, where Dr. M. WagstafF ordered her immediate removal to hospital. 'The child was first taken to its parents’ home, however, and died at 1 o’clock on Sunday morning, al- | though it. had been intended to take 1 her to hospital that day. j Evidence was given by Dr. Wagstaff that she performed a post mortem examination and found the child to have been suffering from meningitis, complicated by pneumonia, which, in her opinion, was the cause | of death. ■ After hearing the doctor, Mrs Tilly Paul and Messrs Rory and (George Paul, the coroner returned a verdict in accordance with the medical evidence.