DEATH FROM TETANUS
FOLLOWING INJURY
Hy'Telegraph-—Per Press Association.)
WELLINGTON, May 19.
A car driven by Albert Leonard ■Smith crashed, on April 25, through a fence, struck a house, and overturned. One of the three passengers Dorothy Mary Middleton, had a lacerated wound in the thigh’. Ten days later tentanus set in and she died on May 6. At the inquest, medical evidence was given that deceased had a disease which reduced her resistance. The hospital house surgeon said that when admitted on May 5, the wound was covered with a piece of dirty linen.
The Coroner found that the car was driven' at a speed greatly in excess of a sntfe speed in approaching an intersection, also that the car which Smith manoeuvred to avoid was also travelling fairly fast. ' H ecommented it was' miraculous that nobody, else- was hurt. He was satisfied that the doctor who first attended her did 1 so Droperly. He had suggested she should go to the hospital, hut she refused and ho could not compel her. The verdict was death from heart failure due to tentanus, following injury of the thigh <■'■« »v>sult of a motor car driven by. Smith, overturning.
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 May 1930, Page 3
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