FIRE IN NEXT ROOM DROVE MAN MAD
Death, according to a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Court in Sydney, may result not only from the effects of actual contact with fire, but may also be indirectly attributable to an extreme apprehension of danger. Acute mania, supervening on shock induced by fear of fire, supplied the grounds of a claim for £BOO by Gertrude Alice Cronan, of Parramatta, from the Goodyear Tyre and Rubber Co. (Aust.), Ltd., as compensation for the loss of her husband, John Bede Cronan. Cronan. it was stated, was employed in the Goodyear store, and while he
was working on July 29, last year, a fire occurred in the building. Although the outbreak was confined to the room adjacent to the one in which Cronan was working, he received such a shock that it caused acute mania, from which he died a few weeks later. The Court decided in favour of the applicant, and awarded compensation for the amount claimed.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 398, 5 July 1928, Page 13
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163FIRE IN NEXT ROOM DROVE MAN MAD Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 398, 5 July 1928, Page 13
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