A WOMAN'S SUDDEN DEATH

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 309, 23 September 1920, Page 5

A WOMAN'S SUDDEN DEATH

CAUSED BY HEART FAILURE. An inquc6t was l.eld yesterday afternoon by Mr. F.'K. Hunt, 8.M., into the cause of the Budden death of Ada Jtargaret Demuth, 43 years of ago, at 153 Ghnznee Street, on the evonlng of Tuesday. The deceased was a married woman, and resided with hor husband, Georgo Demuth, a carrier, at 18 Lome Street. On Tuesday evening, accompanied bv her daughter, sho set out to sio a friend in Ghuznec Street. On the way she corapluined of feeling faint, and stated that she would not bo able to go much further. On mival at the house in Ghuzneo Street Mrs. Demuth sat on a oof a, complained of a suffocating reeling, fell back, frothed at the mouth, and appeared to be dead. Dr. Eawsoii, jun., was immediately callod in, and on his arrival ho pronounced life extinct. Mrs. Demuth had been ailing for tho past three Dr. A. Palmer said ho attonded Mrs. Demuth in June last. Sho was suffering from a, heart attack, nnd lie waa certain that any exertion or excitement on hor part would result in heart failure. Ho was satisfied that I'.oatli waa duo to this cauße, brought on by exertion. Tho Coroner s flniing was in accordance with tho medical teatimony. •