SUDDEN DEATH

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 783, 5 April 1910, Page 5

SUDDEN DEATH

THE CASE OP MISS WINIFRED SIMS.

An inquiry' was. !iel(T'ai: the ,niorßu« yesterday,afternoon intb-the'.cause.of the death of Miss Winifred Mary Sims, 22 .years of ase, who expired suddenly at her home, No. 1 Shannon Street, at about 11.15 p.m. on Saturday. .Dr. W. Kington Fyffe,' who conducteda post mortem examination of the deceased, testified that, there were no external injuries, save a few.scratches on her hands. The left' ventricle of the heart was greatly hyportrophied. The right kidney w.as. four. times as large as the left—an extraordinary thing—and to the naked eye was. normal.- The left kidney was much atrophied, and. its ' surface was covered with cysts. The-capsule was adherent, and the secreting substanoe muoh diminished." In the substance of. the right hemisphere of the brain, and beginning in the neighbourhood of the internal capsule, was a-very, large haemorrhage, which had overflowed into the' lateral ventricle and the base.of the brain. The cause of death wae haemorrhage into the brain, consequent iipon an old-standing kidney ' disease.. The girl really died from apoplexy, the result of the one kidney being diseased/' the witness would say, since she was a ohild, or even at birth. ■-. ' : -,

Mrs.- Sims, mothor of the deceasod. slated that her daughter was 22 years of age. Deceased was employed in the millinery business, and she appeared to-be enjoying her usual health. She never complained of her back, but sometimes complained of headaches. On Saturday she had gone to Mungaroa (with her father and sister), and witness did not see the deceased again until 7 p.m. She 6cemed in her usual .health. Sho had tea', and then carried her little nieces down to the tramcar, returning about 9.15 pjn. On.returning home deceased had a warm bath, after which she complained of feeling giddy. ; She got as far as the dining-room door on her way to her bedroom, when she fell on her knees. She tried to set up, but each time fell down again.: She was then helped to bed, and when Mr. Sims came home about 10 p.m., the doctor was sent for. Dr. Eliott came about 11.30 p.m., by which time the girl was dead. \ . . Mr. Thos. Sims, father of the deceased, stated in evidence that he had been blackberrying with the deceased during tho day. She was in her normal health— quite jolly, in fact. He had no idea sho' had any. organic disease.' ■ The coroner stated that the verdict was death by natural causes.