GIRL DIRS TWICE.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 November 1923, Page 1

GIRL DIRS TWICE.

I .OX BOX, September ]!r. The siory of how a < hil<l died during ;m operation stud was then hrought hfiek Id life was told at n Westminster inquest yesterday on Violet Winifred Leonard. !>, of l,ynton-ro:id, Bermondsey, S.K. It wits staiod that, the child had undergone .several operations. On September 11 at St. George’s Hospital during another operation her heart stopP<‘d and she died. The heart was massaged by hand and it began to bent, first with a Hut ter. and then steadily, and breathing wa-. i (‘-established. She was actually alive again ! r about Id minutes, but idler she lmd been taker, hack to the ward she collapsed am! died.

Dr. Bt.i.xt it i!i-l;s, pathologist at the hospital, said that death was duo to the fact that the girl had status lymphatieus. She was dead for some time before her heart vas set going again. Air Oddie, the coroner, said it vas clearly a case of biiuging i.mek to life a girl wlio was ill fact dead. A verdict of Death by Misadventure wgs recorded. Status lymphatieus is a condition of bodily debility accompanied hv an enlargement of the thymus gland. It usually baffles detection until after death, and versons suffering from Hadisease may die from the mist trivial causes.