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The kindly act of a woman doctor, 22 years ago, was revealed at a Southwark inquest on Marion Carleston, aged 53, .widow. Mrs Carleston died in Guy’s Hospital from injuries received in a fall. Hr Selina Fit/.hcrbert Fox, medical superintendent of Bermondsey Mission, said Mrs Carleston had been in her service as housekeeper for 22 years. She met her in a slum, starving, with her son. They were living in one room, the only fuiniture being a bed, a broken chair, and a basin. She took the woman dnto her service as a housekeeper. The coroner; How about the little bo,\ ? Hr Fox: I took an interest in him, and at the L.C.C. school he was so exceptionally clever that I paid for his education at St. Olave’s, Southwark where lie obtained a scholarship. I went on paying for his books, and lie ultimately went to Cambridge, where he passed all his examinations and came out ninth, a year ahead of ],i s time. He entered the Indian Civil Service, and he i- now in India. The coroner returned a verdict of accidental death.
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Hokitika Guardian, 9 May 1929, Page 2
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188FROM SLUM TO UNIVERSTIY Hokitika Guardian, 9 May 1929, Page 2
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