CASUAL TREATMENT OF BROKEN LEG.
A CORONER’S CRITICISM. Dunedin, July 22. Ai the inquest on Thomas Pealtie Kirk (42), a married man who died suddenly hist Wednesday after his discharge from hospital, following less than 48 hours’ treatment for a f.nc Hired log, the Coroner criticised ihe fad that the man was allowed to walk from Ihe hospital to his home, ill ice hundred yards away and generallv condemned the casual manner i,| * iiscliarge adopted in this ease, lie added that it was fortunate that the medical evidence showed that walking had no direct bearing on Ihe cause of death, which resulted from a clot of blood dislodged from the ankle reaching the left lung, through the general circulation. The wife’s evidence showed that it took deceased over an hour to walk home.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2762, 24 July 1924, Page 3
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133CASUAL TREATMENT OF BROKEN LEG. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2762, 24 July 1924, Page 3
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