THE WRONG CORPSE
(Press Assn.-
unfortunate error HUSBAND SENt THE BODY OF A STRANGE . 'WOMAN SHROUDS GET MIXED
— By Telegraph — Copyright).
Dunedin, Tuesday. A remarkable mistake affecting the identity of a dead body occurred at Dunedin last Friday when, through an error on the part of an attendant at. the public hospital, a °resident, whose wife had died in tbe insjtitution, was sbown the corpse of an unknown woman and told that it was fyis wife. ., . . . . The man insisted that his wife's body should be sent home before the burial and a body which was believed to be that of his wife was sent from The hospital. On the eoffin being opened, however, it was found that the wrong body had been sent. The explanation of tbe unfortunate occurrence is that the attendant whose duty it is to attend to such .matters inadvertently affected a sub- • stitution of the labelled shrouds when replaeing them. Had the mistake not ■ been discovered, the bodies would have beencburied in the wrong places and under the wrong names.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 671, 25 October 1933, Page 5
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174THE WRONG CORPSE Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 671, 25 October 1933, Page 5
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