DEATH UNDER OPERATION
DUE TO HEART FAILURE INQUEST AT HAMILTON (From Our Oxen Correspondent.) HAMILTON. To-day. At the inquest to-day into the circumstances surrounding the deuth of John Diver, 68 years, at the Waikato Hospital under an anaesthetic while undergoing an operation for the removal of an enlarged gland, the coroner, Mr. W'vvern Wilson, S.M., returned a verdict that death was due to heart failure owing to fatty degeneration, accelerated by the administering of the anaesthetic. The coroner commented that the operation had been properly conducted, but it was always wise to investigate into deaths under such circumstances in public institutions.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 123, 15 August 1927, Page 9
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101DEATH UNDER OPERATION Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 123, 15 August 1927, Page 9
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