The Archive · 1938

Doctor's Account

Dr. Yau Ming Hau next gave evidence and said that he was on the staff of the Public Health Department attached to the hospital He told the court that at about 10 a.m. on December 11, he was called by a foreign warder to attend a foreign woman that had fallen from the hospital. He proceeded to the compound and found the victim who had presumably fallen from the building on. to the roof of the garage. Blood was running out of her ears and nose and after feeling the pulse and the heart, he found that life was apparently extinct. He doünd several multiple fractures in legs and arms. Witness stated that he remained with the body until a Fire Brigade ambulance removed it.

Sua Singh, a warder at the Ward Road Gaol said that he had arrived at the hospital door shortly before 10 o'clock to relieve warder No. 216. He had instructions to let no-one pass with the exception of members of the hospital staff and P.W.D. employees. At about 9.45 a.m., he went on to say. he saw a foreign lady arrive whom he had never seen-before. She came on foot and was stopped by him. She told him that she was on the staff of the hospital whereupon he let her pass. She then took the lift. Soon afterwards, Warders Shui and Kalashnikoff ran toward the garage and he heard them say that a foreign woman was lying there. Asked whether he heard any scream or noise, he answered-in the negative. "Witness was not able to describe the clothing worn by the deceased but said that she was not wearing a uniform.

The Coroner then adjourned the inquest until 10.30 o'clock on Tuesday morning.

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