VERY SAD CASE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 December 1938, Page 7

VERY SAD CASE

“POOR FRIENDLESS GIRL ALLOWED TO DIE.”

STATEMENT BY AUCKLAND CORONER.

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND. November 30.

“Had this girl received the attention she should have had she might not have died. It is a very very sad case indeed.” said Mr F. K. Hunt, coroner, at an inquest into the death of Rose Ann Hogan, aged 26, a single machinist, who died in the Auckland hospital on September 7. He severely criticised certain aspects of the case.

The coroner said that evidence previously given by Dr. Gilmour, pathologist at the Auckland hospital, was to the effect that a post-mortem examination showed death to be due to septic abortion.

Miss Hogan had no relatives in Auckland and had arrived from Melbourne early this year, said DetecflveSergeant Walsh. “Here is a poor friendless girl allowed to die,” said the coroner in returning a verdict of death from septic abortion.”

He said her young man friend was deserving of the severest censure. That was as strongly as he could put it. He was responsible for the girl’s condition and he took her to an apartment house where she would receive no attention. Fortunately the woman of the house gave what help she could. “The town is full of charitable people would would have been only too glad to give every assistance,” added the coroner.