DEATH OF A SOLDIER

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17691, 31 July 1919, Page 3

DEATH OF A SOLDIER

DUE TO SYNCOPE. The adjourned inquest concerning the Oath of a returned solclior named Georgo Thomas M'Cleery, who expired while walking from Normanby to Port Chalmers on Monday, was concluded yesterday afternoon before Mr. H. Y. Widdowson (coroner). ' Dr Evans deposed that about 4 p.m. on Monday ho was called by the police to examine the body of deceased. A post-mor-tem examination showed that the body was well built and well" nourished. The membranes of tho brain were congested. There was no haemorrhage into tho brain. There v.-ero adhesions on the left side of tho chest wall, indicating old pleurisy. Both lungs wore very congested, and the heart was enlarged, weighing 15ioz. Witness could find no evidence of disease of tho bowels or tho heart, but the heart muscle over both auricles was thinned. Tho stomach contained a considerable quantity or. fluid and undigested food. All the internal abdominal organs were congested. There was a small scar on the left armpit and a Horizontal soar across the back at tho level of tho right shoulder blade, presumably wounds sustained on activo service. Witness was of opinion that the cause of death was syncope caused by exertion on an enlarged heart. Tho ascent of tho hill would be tho immediate cauao of cardiac failure. A verdict was returned in accordance with tho medical testimony.