MARRIED WOMAN'S DEATH
EVIDENCE REGARDING OPERATION The circumstances Attending tho death on Tuesday morning of a married woman named Mary Josephine Clarke, aged 34 years, the wife of J. J. Clarke, a grocer's assistant, residing at Seatouu Heights, Miramar, were inquired into by the coroner, Mr. W. G. Kiddcll, S.M.. yesterday. Sergeant Wade represented the police. j Dr. W. Kington Fyffe, who conducted a post-mortem examination of the bodv of the deceased, said there was a wound on a certain part of the body. Tho wound had been stitched, but easily broke down. Death was due to bloodpoisoning. Some operation must havo been performed on the deceased. Joseph James 'Clarke, husband of the deceased, said he had been married since 1904, and there were five children, the youngest being four years of age. For the last seven years deceased had been in bad health, and about five years a"o she had been medically attended by Dr. Mackin; Not since the last child had been born had she consulted a doctor. Lately, witness advised her to see a doclor, as she complained of a pain at tho bottom of the back. The children woro nderwards taken ill, and she obtained medicine for them, but said nothing about herself. The medical officer of witness's lodge told deceased that she needed attention herself. Deceased did not tell witness what doctor that was. Witness did not know of anv operation which had beon performed on his wife within a recent date. She had complained of internal pains. If any operalion had been performed it was done without witness's knowledge. The coroner: Dr. Fyffe says there must have been an operation, as there was a scar on the body. Continuing, witness said nobody had been nursing his wife during the past month. .During (he past week deceased had been in bed unwell on different days but on Sunday she was all right. On Monday night she was very bad, and the following morning she succumbed A verdict was returned that death was due to blood-poisoning.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 268, 1 August 1918, Page 6
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340MARRIED WOMAN'S DEATH Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 268, 1 August 1918, Page 6
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