SURGEON’S SUICIDE
RESULT OF OVERWORK. Press Association— By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, September 13. (Received September 14, at 10.5 a.m.) At the inquest on Dr Shields, his brother. Sir Douglas Shields, said that deceased’s brain suddenly gave out. Ho had taken no holiday' since 1914, and was persistently overworked. He went without Ins meals at the week-end in order to see patients, lie had no financial worry. A verdict of suicide while of unsound mind was returned.—A. and N.Z. and ' Sun ’ Cable. [A previous message stated that lb" body of Dr Oswald Clive Shields, aged lil'ty-sis, of Melbourne, practising in the West End of London, was found in tho woods at Richmond, Surrey, with an artery in the groin severed by a surgical instrument, which was found nearby It is staled that he long overworked, and refused (o take a holiday. He acted in war time as an operating surgeon at Boulogne, and as a surgery specialist at Wimercux. Mis wife and their five children were holiday making with his brother. Sir Douglas Shields.J
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Evening Star, Issue 19661, 14 September 1927, Page 9
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172SURGEON’S SUICIDE Evening Star, Issue 19661, 14 September 1927, Page 9
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