ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
HEART FAILURE WHILST SWIMMESG. • i By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, March 8. A fatality occurred at Lyall Bay yesterday, when a, returned soldier, Thomas ! Alexander Munro,. a single man, aged 36, apparently died of heart failure when, swirrtniuig in the surf. His mother, who was sitting on the beach, noticed his body floating face downwards and immediately raised the alarm. Help was promptly forthcoming, but life was extinct. Munro arrived back from England last month, and had been in indifferent health since. At the inquest Dr. Pattie stated that he hardly thought that deceased had been drowned, but that he had lost the I use of his breath while swimming. Another witness said that had deceased | been in his usual health he would have been able to walk ashore had he got into danger. The coroner returned a verdict that Munro died from heart failure while bathing—the evidence went to show that it was, not an ordinary case of, drowning.
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Taranaki Daily News, 10 March 1919, Page 2
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