ACCIDENTAL POISONING.
OF HOSPITAL PATIENT.
Timaru, Last Night,
Patrick McCann, a labourer, aged 43, was sent to Timaru hospital on Monday last to he treated, but died on Tuesday morning.
At the inquest to-night, a verdict was returned that death was due to collapse and heart failure, caused by bis having been accidentally poisoned while in the hospital. Deceased was ordered a barium meal, and had been given a meal with two ounces of barium carbonate instead of barium sulphate.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3541, 23 September 1926, Page 3
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80ACCIDENTAL POISONING. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3541, 23 September 1926, Page 3
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