ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1873, 6 October 1913, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

YOONG WOMAN'S. DEATH. (Br Telegraph—Preas Association.) Dunedin, October 5. Tho Coroner (Sir. G. C. Graham) held an inquest on Saturday concerning tho death of Margaret Mary Donnelly, which occurred in Hopo Street cn Friday morning. , Henry James Donnelly, dontist, living iin Dunedin, and step-brother of deceased. said that she was a single woman living in Invercargill and a book-keeper by profession. Sho was -26 years*old. He was not aware that sho had como to Dunedin, and had no knowledge of tho circumstances connected with .her death. ■ • Dr. Fleming said that on Friday morning, at about 6.15, ho got o message to go to seo a young woman who was very ill with jaundice. Somo minutes later tho messenger (a woman) said that it was a mishap, and sho accompanied witness to t'ho house. _ He found tho patient in bed unconscious, profoundly jaundiced, and practically pulseless, and sho had a temperature of 103. Ho found that sho had had a certain mishap and was manifestly tlving. Witness rang up Dr. Macpherson, and they consulted together. They left about 7.15, and witness looked in again at 5.45. Tho girl died a minuto after ho got into the room. Witness reported tho matter to tho police, becauso ho was not able to give a satisfactory certificate of death. Ho mado a pest mortem examination, and found that there had been a miscarriage which had happened quite recently. Tho cause of death was probably profound toxaemia of pregnancy, an exceedingly rare and little understood disease, and quito distinct from septic absorption—tho usual cause of death in such cases. One thing that could cause similar symptoms was phosphorous poisoning, and though he did not think tliat tho causo of doath was phosphorous poisoning, ho had forwarded tho contents of tho stomach to tho Government analyst. Ho could not say whether toxcam.i had caused the mishap,,' or the mishap toxaemia, but, if slio was well beforehand, as ho understood, then toxaemia followed tho mishap. This was a very obscure disease which, whilo markedly associated with pregnancy, sometimes occurred apart from it. Dr. M'Pherson said that he would not like to say that toxaemia- of pregnancy was tho causo of doath until an examination by tho pathologist was made. He believed that that would clear up -tho matter. A lot of tho conditions which ho found woro quito consistent with a natural mishap. ' Enhraim Barbour M'Kay, auctioneer, o c fnvercargill, said that deceased had been in his employment for eight years. Sho left Invercargill at mid-day on Tuesday to como to Dunedin to son friends. She was to have como back on Friday night to. take up wcrk on Saturday. Her holiday was evidently not premeditated, for, as a matter of fact, it was when she was informed tliat she was promoted to head book-keeper that sho suggested that she might take a few days' holiday before starting to prepare for her now duties. PATIENT'S FATAL ACT. (By TeleerapU.—Prc63 Association.) Napier, October 4. At an inquest at tho hospital eoncorning tho death of Charles Crcsccnt Sanders, a; single man aged 38 years, evidence showed that deceased had been suffering from .pneumonia and pleurisy, that ho suddenly became delirious, and, evading tho nurso, jumped through a window, cutting himself badly, and that he died shortly after .being got back to bed. The Coroner found that death was due to pneumonia, accoleratod by shock, and that no blame was attachable to tho staff. NURSE INJURED IN COLLISION. A severe collision between motorcycles tooi; place yesterday aftornoonat Ceurtcliny Place, as a result of whicli Nurse Buchanan, of 24 Scarborough Terrace, was thrown, heavily from tlio side-car attached to one of tho cycles. Miss Buchanan was attended to by Dr. Tolhurst, who found lien to be suffering from a severe contusion <'n tho forehead. FOUND DROWNED. Yesterday morning the body of. a man was seen floating in flic harbour beyond King's Wharf, and word was telephoned to tho police station. Constables Millar and Shannon wore quieklv on tho scene, and soon had tjio body brought ashore, where it was recognised by tho secretary of tho Watorsido Workers' Union as tliat of Benjamin Anderson, aged about 45, a casual wharf labourer. He was believed to bo single, but bis address was unknown, and it was not known whether he had any relatives in the district. Tho bodv was removed to the morgue., to await tho inquest, the time of • wliich has not yet been .fixed.