Death under Chloroform at Hawera.
';';*: ' (umTW> PBESS ASSOCIATION) i , • • • ... ■■■_ Eawera, Wednesday.; "-,', ; •? jiorftnee Eva'ngeline, Mumby, wife of : i' , Richard Mumby, of ; Hawera, died this } ; ; afternoon whilst under chloroform, ad,/i \aninistered to allow, of four teeth being' ... /extraetedl Two doctors were present. • i> An inquest will be held to-morrow. •'■■■' i l '-; : . • • ' " ■ ' "';■•■ :> . . Later , At the inquest on the body of Mrs ' Mumby" this _ morning the evidence showed that the doatlir'took^pla<}e-jii_,Pr ' Alexander's surgery, where she had gone ? to have teeth extracted, and the chloro^ ; form was 'administered by Dr Chiltbn. i).eceased was examined before, _the . !i:i chlgrpform was,. administered, and; \yas believed to be sound but died • suddenly after completion of the operation. A; postmortem was made by Dr Ljghtbourrie who depoßed; that the deceased had suf- ■ f ercd from fatty degeneration of the heart, and, he attributed death to this caiise accelerated by . the administration ■ of chloroform. He held that no blame ' is attached to the doctors who had been ; concerned m the operation. The verdict ;of the jury was m accordance with Dr Lightbourne's evidence.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1655, 11 March 1886, Page 4
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173Death under Chloroform at Hawera. Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1655, 11 March 1886, Page 4
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