DEATH FROM INJURY
DELAYED CALL FOR DOCTOR.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
WOODVILLE, 4th September. On Thursday last Mrs. S. Russell, wife of Mr. W. H. Russell, licensee of the Post Office Hotel, Woodville, was found dead in bed. A medical witness gave evidence at th. inquest to-day to the effect that she had been dead at least two days before he was called in. There was also evidence that she fell on her head in the hotel_ passage on 27th August, receiving injuries. A post mortem examination revealed that she had had a hemorrhage of the brain, caused by a fall. The Coroner gave his verdict in accordance with tho medical testimony, that she died of hemorrhage of the brain, the result of an injury received from a fall on 27th August. The Coroner commented strongly on the fact that medical or other aid was not sought at a much earlier period. He said that in any case he did not think that, even if a doctor had been called in, the woman's life could have been saved.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 58, 6 September 1926, Page 3
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