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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 17, Issue 1014, 11 May 1871, Page 2

At Camden Town, London, two men were directed by the district medical officer to call with the ambulance at a certain house for a maD lying ill of the smallpox to convey him to the hospital. By some mistake the men called at the house of Amy Redgrave, aged 22, who was near her confinement, and had been herself slightly afflicted with smallpox, and whose father died only a few weeks previously. The men, instead of saying they had come to fetch a man, asked if there was anyone ill of smallpox in the house, and being answered in the affirmative, said they had come to take the patient away. This reaching the ears of the deceased, she became so dreadfully alarmed that she fainted away, and shortly after gave birth, to a child prematurely. She lay-|n a very low condition, and whilst this was the case the landlord put a man in possession, for a month's rent. This also tended to increase her alarm and excitement, and shs died two days afterwards,