DEAD FOR TWO DAYS.
BEFORE MEDICAL AID
SOUGHT
A WOODVILLE HAPPENING
Woodville, September 4
On Thursday last Mrs S. Russell, wife of Mr. W. H. Russell, licensee of the Post Offiicc Hotel, Woodville, was found dead in bed. A medical witness gave evidence at the inquest to-day to the effect that she had been dead at least two days before he was called in. There was also evidence that she fell on her head in the hotel passage on August 27, receiving injuries. A post-mor-tem examination revealed that she had had a haemorrage of the brain, caused by a fall.
The coroner gave his verdict in accordance with the medical testimony, that she died of haemorrage of the brain, the result of an injury received from a fall on August 27. The coroner commented strongly on the fact that medical or other aid was not sought at much earlier period. He said that in any ease he did not think that, even if a doctor had been called in, the woman’s life could have been saved.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3534, 7 September 1926, Page 2
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176DEAD FOR TWO DAYS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3534, 7 September 1926, Page 2
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