NURSE’S DEATH

Hokitika Guardian, 13 September 1929, Page 3

NURSE’S DEATH

INFANT’S BODY FOUND/V- - f By Aiipbiation)./ ; ' . • . . , ' . •••• ..- V. ' ._ . , AUCKLAND, iSept. 12. < • Lily Wall, single, a nurse, employed as assistant cook at. the : A yen* dale Mental Hospital, died on Tuesday. Her funeral was arranged for to-day, but was cancelled on the finding of the dead body of a baibj among the effects in her room. ■'£'< AUCKLAND, Sept: 12j Tho deceased nurse, Lily Wall', was 28 years of. age. She had been ! employed as nurse at Auckland; Mental ■ Hospital, and latterly she, had acted as cook. She died on Tuesday, add when later a search of her effects ■'■vfpk made, the ibody of a newly-born child was found in a trunk under, hef bedj Miss Wall had been in good health up to August 14th last; when . complained of influenza and . vwW treated by a medical man. ,«She ,)s&■ er complained of palpitation; and; bn Tuesday she took a sudden tiiriy ]jsk the worse,, and she died in two 'hours. Arrangements had been made/fop tjhc funeral to take place ■ this mbrniiig, but a post mortem examination wa® ordered, and the funeral was : pbjrfcr poned until this afternoon, when mourners included twelve of the mfry ses in uniform from the Mental pital. .. - /.

rAn inquest on Miss Wall was open* ed and was adjourned after evidence ' of identification had been heard. f-