SNORING CAUSES DEATH.
An extraordinary accident was inquired into at the Paddlugton coroner's court recently. Mr George Walls, a man sixtyeight years of age, who was verger at a Kentish Town ehur> ."•'.. paid a visit to a. married daughter in Jviiiurst Mew*. Here ho became suddenly ili, but refused to see a doctor. The r.est day he was found dead in bed. -- post-mortem examination revealed some false teeth flnnly fixed in the dead man's throat. There "cculd be no doubt, said Dr. Angus at the inquest, that Mr Walls while lying asleep on his back had by snoring caused the plate with the false teeth to fall from the roof of his mouth and lodge in the throat. Ihe rimrp edijo of the plate had ruptured the small blood vessels, and this had brought about death. The ease, in the opinion of ihe doctor, showed the importance to persons with false teeth of taking them out before going to bed.
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 11505, 11 February 1903, Page 7
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160SNORING CAUSES DEATH. Press, Volume LX, Issue 11505, 11 February 1903, Page 7
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