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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4513, 10 January 1923, Page 2

FATAL ILLNESS MYSTERY. Five doctors were baffled by the illness which caused the death ofi Harry Farrow, 39, a forage carman, of Western Terrace, Nor,th Kensington (London), on whom an inquest ■was held at Hammersmith. It had been diagnosed as rheumatism, tubercle, and gastritis. The widow said that at the end of October her husband shower a rasa and complained of loss of powder >n his legs, which Dr. Pollock Muir said was rheumatism. On November 2 Dr. Foley diagnosed tubercle and abdominal trouble, and sent him to Kensington Infirmary. There small-pox was suspected, and her husband was sent to the isolation hospital at Dartford. The next night he was taken back to the infirmary, where he died. Dr. Hobbs told her that he could not give a death certificate as :hei- husband had died from an irritant poison. Dr. Remington Hobbs, medical superintendent of the Kensington Infirmary, said that when admitted on November 2 Farrow had a peculiar rash, and after consultation with D’-’. Cameron, of the Metropolitan Asylum Board, it was decided to send him to Dartford. The next evening he was brought back in a worse 'condition. Dr. Hobbs said he formed .the opinion that death was due to syncope from irritation of the stomach and acute gastritis. The rash might have been toxaemia from intestinal trouble. Dr,. Robert Donaldson, a pathologist of St. George's Hospital, who made a post-mortem examination, said the hemorrhages in the intestines might be food poisoning- He thought death was due to pneumonia. The inquest was adjourned.