A verdict of death as a risull heart failure due to congestion of the lungs following poisoning coal yas was reached by Mr, C. H. Haines, Coroner, in H, M. Police Court on February % at the conclusion of the Inquest on a seaman hamed Dhora, a member of the crew fof the s, Sirdhana, who died January 14. The Coroner decided that death was due to misadventure. The Inquest was opened at the General Hospital on January 15, when evidence of identification was given "another member of the crew named Dosnie. Evidence was given. by'"Harold Edward Webber, tug master of the P. & O. (ug Gutzlaf, who brought the deceased with Dosale to the General Hospital from the Sirdhana, pleted. on the—following day at the Country Hospital in the Dresenee of a number of doctors, including Drs. O'Hara, Bryson and Wall, "The operation was one of the most difficult and dangerous one can do," said Dr. Burion, The child had been dead for between three and four months.
'The death of the child might have been caused by disease or a sudden physical shock; he did not think it Would result' from an emotional shock, and said that he could conceive' of death resulting from accident in which a car in which the mother was sitting was run into from behind by another. When he examined Mrs. Morcher' on July 22, her discomfort, was almost entirely' mental. and not physical.
She made a very good recovery from. the. difficult operation, which the described in detail under Dr. Sellet's eross-examination, and she was now, physically speaking, a normal. woman. Sh under thirty years of age. anyone could such a jo. through thing without any mark, mental other," he concluded.
Re-examined by Mr. Wiener, Dr. Burton said that in the case of" Mrs. Moreher's child he excluded all possibility of any disease in. the mother. In the case of the accident described by Dr. Sellet. he thought conceivable that the child would die it the mother were flung for Wards. that she severely bruised her. shoulder.
The case fas. then adjourned.
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