A YOUNG WOMAN'S DEATH.
THE INQUEST.
Dunedin, April i. The inquest on the body of Janet M’Coll, who died at the re* sideuce of Mrs Durston, at Mornington, on March 25, after having given birth to twins on March 16, was continued to-day before Mr Widdowson. Mrs Durston said she was a ladies’ nurse, unregistered. Deceased called at her place on March 15, and engaged a room for a week or so. After going to bed that night deceased was very sick, but said she had been sick for six weeks, and advised witness to take no notice of it. Deceased got worse as the night advanced, and eventually admitted her condition. Death was due to general septic peritonitis, due to puerperal infection, otherwise blood poisoning. There was an injury which he was at a loss to explain. The suggestion was that an instrument or something else had been used. It was unlikely to have occurred in any other way, though he would not care to deny that it could happen naturally. He could not swear positively an instrument had been used. The inquest wqs further adjourned till Wednesday.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/MH19100402.2.9
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 821, 2 April 1910, Page 2
Word count
Tapeke kupu
189A YOUNG WOMAN'S DEATH. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 821, 2 April 1910, Page 2
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Manawatu Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in