A BAFFLING DISEASE
WOMAN’S CEASELESS CRYING An inquest was held by the coroner, Mr. Douglas Cowburn, at Brixton, S.W.. on Mrs. Alice Mary Hill, aged 59, a widow, of Solon New Road, Brixton, who was found dead from coal gas poisoning. A son said that his mother suffered from neurasthenia, insomnia, and melancholia, and was always crying. She had been attended by two doctors, including a Harley Street specialist. Dr. Gerald Slot said that he found at the post mortem examination that Mrs. Hill suffered from a rare condition of the liver known as Hanot's disease (an incurable affection causing enlargement of the liver and marked by fever and chronic jaundice). He had only seen two cases of the kind, and in each the patient was depressed, even to the extent of trying.
Recording a verdict of suicide while of unsound mind Mr. Cowburn said he had little doubt that the disease was the factor which caused her to take her life.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 684, 8 June 1929, Page 19
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162A BAFFLING DISEASE Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 684, 8 June 1929, Page 19
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