Man Whose Neck Was Broken
DIED OF PNEUMONIA. That death was due to pneumonia following severance of the spinal cord was the verdict returned yesterday by the Napier coroner, Mr A. E. Bedford, J.P., at the conclusion of the resumed inquest into the death of Nornftan Edward Christoffersen, aged 35, a Public Works Department employee. He died at the Napier Public Hospital on January 16 after breaking his neck when the lorry in which he was riding went over a bank four days earlier on a road leading down near Poraite to the Ahuriri Lagoon reclamation works. The coroner’s verdict was based upon evidence given by the acting-medical superintendent of the Napier Public Hospital, Dr. A. G. Clark. Ho said that Christoffersen was admitted to hospital in the evening of January 12 suffering from a fractured dislocation of the neck. As a result of this, he died four days later from pneumonia.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 25, 30 January 1937, Page 2
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