Coroner's report. II.

  • Hussey, E. L. (Edward Law)
Date:
[1890]
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Credit: Coroner's report. II. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    At the Inquest, it appeared that the last day the Boy was at school, there was some rough play among the Boys ; and this Boy was among them. The Master was not in the room at the time; and he did not hear of it till aftei^vards. The medical evidence showed that there was not any appear- ance of injury ; and that there was not any disease beyond what is usually seen after death in con- sumption. Two cases last year, in which an Inquest, though required by law, was not held, deserve notice. A man working among cattle, and employed by the slaughtermen and butchers, was admitted into the Radcliffe Infirmary, with symptoms of what is known as “ blood-poisoning and died the day he was admitted. The certificate usual in a case of natural death was given, for regis- tration ; and the body was removed, and buried, without my knowlcge. A child, sick after a fall in its father’s house, was attended by two Medical Practitioners ; and died after some three or four weeks illness. The fact of the fall, and that the symptoms which led to the death, were caused by the fall, was known to both Practitioners. Yet a certificate of the cause of death was given, and the death was re- gistered, without mention of it. In both these cases, the Medical men knew there was “ reasonable cause to suspect,” — in