LEFT GAOL TO DIE
HOSPITAL REFUSES TO TAKE IN VAGRANT CORONER CRITICISES DOCTORS Press Association WELLINGTON, To-day. At an inquest held yesterday into the death of George Corrigall, aged about 56, the coroner, Mr. E. Page, criticised the action of the hospital doctors in refusing the man readmission a couple of hours after his discharge without holding a conference with the gaol doctor who sent him there. ■ Evidence showed deceased to be a vagrant, careless of how he lived, and addicted to methylated and other spirits. He was arrested for vagrancy on December 8, and was sent to hospital the next day. On December 13 he was discharged from hospital back to the police. Dr. Gilmer saw him on his arrival at the gaol’ and at once directed that he be returned to the hospital, where he was refused admission. On examination by Dr. Cook, he was again ordered to hospital on December 15, and died there on the following day from acute endocarditis with septicaemia.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 544, 22 December 1928, Page 1
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