DEATH AT THE LUNATIC ASYLUM.

Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 114, 20 February 1872, Page 3

DEATH AT THE LUNATIC ASYLUM.

A very sad death lias to be chronicled, which occurred on Friday last at the Lunatic Asylum, and which proved the subject of a coroner’s inquest before Dr Goldsbro’ and a panel of twelve jurors, summoned from the roll of city jurymen on Saturday. Elizabeth Witten, a youn ami respectable married woman, reside: at Mr Taylor’s farm, near to Henderson' Mill, was admitted into the Asylun suffering from mental derangcmci brought on by puerperal l'evcr. All lb medical skill could do, or all that matron attention could offer, did mil serve to sa the life of the sufferer. She wasadmilto (lie Asylum on tbe Kith, and ii within five days after, her child surviv her. It was after death that the madrew tbe medical attendant’s altenlio the left arm of tlie deceased, which, examination, was discovered to liav reived a deep wound, self-inflicted pair of scissors. Upon a further ex nation of the body two severe inji were found to have been inflicted on lower abdomen. The existence of th wounds was not known at the time of t patient’s admission into the hospital. Th jury, after a very careful examination into tbe particulars of the ease, returned a verdict to the effect that the deceased bad died from natural causes.—/>. .s'. Cross.