DEATH UNDER CHLOROFORM. [BY TELEGRAPH.-PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Hawera, Thrusday.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2134, 13 March 1886, Page 3

DEATH UNDER CHLOROFORM. [BY TELEGRAPH.-PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Hawera, Thrusday.

F_ORE>»XE KVAM.KI.INK Ml Mitt, Wife of Richard Muniby, of Havvci.i, dn»d ji^tiT day afternoon whilst under chlniufoim, adniiniiti red to allow of fom teetli bcin<,' extracted. Two doctor-, were pie-'Mit. At tho uif(tie-<t on the h-idy <>f Mis Mumby tins morning the eudenci' ■Oimuvl that death took place in the doct>u'- ■.uitfoiy where falie hid \guno t<> have her teith extracted .vnd that chloiofmin vv i» administered by Dr ChiUon. Dece.iM-dw.i-. examined bofdip tho chloroform «a« admmi-tered, .md vv.i^ believed to be > >uud, but died suddenly after the completion of the opeiation. V p'^t moitem e\amin ation w.is hold by Di. Lij?hbomn«\ who dejx^ed th.it deceased li.id vnuViod from f itty degeneration of tin heart, and he attributed death to tlncauie, accolor itod by the adu inistnti"ti "f chlornfnriu. He held that no lilinicv\iiattached to the doctors who li.id bo< n con cerned in the operation. Tho vciditt of the jury was in accordance with Dr Li^hbourneS e\ ldt'nce.