A FATAL FALL.

Taihape Daily Times, 11 June 1919, Page 5

A FATAL FALL.

AT WELLINGTON BOY’S INSTITUTE. i .____._. F . 1 WELLINGTON, this day, 1 A boy named Leslie Clifford Lang, Idied at the hospital as a result of linjuries received through fa.lling"from :1 bannistcr at the Boys’ Institute, on May 15th. The medical evidence when |a<lmitte«.l was that the boy was in a state of‘ collapse. Hc gradually in]proved till June 6th, when he com—plained of headache. An Operation was iperformod, but the boy died on Mon_ Id'ay' morning laet. ‘The cause of death [was acute meningitis due to fracture '01? the skull, ;, It is stained that it is the custom for ‘lo t l'd,d th b ‘ . l§e?*§ea°fZl3 20 ‘£22l 5l' «I ' , is head s't—rlklng ‘the concrete floor. John C. Cook Director of the Boys’ Institute said } the boys had been checked from the practice of. sliding down bannis-ters when observed, but it was difficult to devise su.r;able protection, as a pm ventative. Th: boy's father in evidence, 51jg~ ges-fe that Wire netting be placed to break the fall in the case of a similar accident. MY. Fraser, S.M., Said “rag ti) check such practices, the authol.i_ ties at the Institute had done their best’ but hoped ihat Somc measu'r‘c would be devisedto make the stairs secure. A