FINDING IN PORIRUA INQUEST

NZ Truth, Issue 1213, 28 February 1929, Page 4

FINDING IN PORIRUA INQUEST

• ~~~~~~ • ■ • THE resumption of the inquest, held before Mr. J. S. Barton, S.M., to enquire into the death of Edith Mary Paynter, at the Porirua Mental Hospital, threw very little further light on the subject. Medical evidence was tendered by, Dr. D. D.. Fehwiclc, who agreed with the report handed m by Dr. P. P. Lynch, the pathologist. It was practically impossible, said Dr. Fenwick, to correctly diagnose the state cf health m such a case prior to death. . , To Mr. Sievwright, the doctor said the symptoms of headache, vomiting and double vision would not be likely, to be manifest unless there was a leakage from the aneurism priorto its final bursting. Recalled, Dr. Lynch said that, subsequent to his report and the •arlier proceedings at the inquest, he had conducted an examination upon another woman who died from an aneurism of the brain. There were no prior symptoms of the trouble m this' latter case. In his finding, the coroner said that death was due to cerebral haemorrhage, brought about by the v rupture of an aneurism m one of the small arteries at the base of the brain. He would deliver a written judgment later, dealing with the charges #f alleged neflleot levelled against the institution. ■