SURGERY FATALITY

Hokitika Guardian, 13 May 1930, Page 3

SURGERY FATALITY

i j r .,,-. - • •' ; y . NOT DUE TOaANAES’IiIE'riC,.; üßv Telegraph—Press;Association). .. ~ -■ i AUCKLAND, May 1:1. :>A;t the' inquest into .the, death of Horace William- Reynolds, who collapsed in a dental surgery a.t Newmarket' on 'Friday) it was stated that the deceased had a fatal seizure before being placed under the umios the tic. - Dr W. H. Thom is, who was to administer the anaesthetic, said that the cause of death was heart failure, due to a struggle when the deceased V(.is onifv lighiy ahaesthetlscdf Hr .Ttlio-. nias- said he had : attended'- .tlie : deceased fob several- years. Lu. Tvyb'U'y.ears previously he> had advised'V-tlid doceased_ ■to'have'liis ‘tdetli'-extracted,- btit fhe -deb-utsed said that be to.ok'ah'aesrhetic hadly. He- : had ' examined 3 the de'ceasecEs heart before the aclhiinistrati on ! bf the: ahaesthetip/Tlib deceased had a violent struggling''attack prior to his going under , the ahaestliefio, Restoration measures had been tried; : for r 'o\br : an dmur Wv® ’~. Attempts to restore.;the deceased -^•ere- c--Cormick, who' was . called; In., by Dr Thomas. He said that it appeared that the deceased had - not- -been under an anaesthetic. Mr,,Hunt, S.M., found that death -a as due to heart failure, caused by an excessive struggle by the deceased .yliile about to undergo an anaesthetic. Hate the Magistrate withheld his finding in order to allow of further questioning of the medical witnesses >v a. representative of the deceased’s relatives. • y . • The inquest was adjourned, sine die.