THYROID DEATH.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 December 1922, Page 6

THYROID DEATH.

TWO SENSATION’S IN BOY S CAREER. “ALWAYS ON BRINK.” London, Dec. 26. Sudden death from an unusual cause has been the fate of Oscar Cromelin Gray, the public schoolboy who disappeared a year ago, and was found four weeks later to have enlisted and to be with the Royal Engineers at Aidershot. Gray, a tali, handsome lad of 18, was living at his father’s duck farm at Berechurch, near Colchester.

At the inquest it was stated that he visited a picture-house, and was apparently in excellent? 1 health, but the next morning he became unconscious and died within half an hour. Dr. Nolan Fell said the lad had an enlarged thyroid gland, and death was due to status lymphaticus. This gland, he added, ordinarily disappears in childhood, but this one had persisted, and weighed eight drams. In such a case a person would live always on the brink of death, the least shock acting on the heart and proving fatal. Tn his opinion, the slight exertion of vomiting in Oscar Gray’s case had affected the brain and heart and caused death. A verdict of “death from natural causes” was returned, and the jury expressed sympathy with the parents in the loss of a promising boy who was a fine athlete.