POISONING CASES
ONE WOMAN STILL SERIOUSLY ILL' The two children—Judith Virtue, aged four, and Audrey Gee, aged 10— who were admitted to the Christchurch Hospital on Wednesday suffering from arsenical poisoning, believed to have been caused through eating biscuits in which arsenic had been used by mistake instead of ground rice were removed from the seriously ill list during the week-end. Mrs Violet May Virtue. 76 Radley street, is still seriously ill. The other five patients similarly affected—three adults and the two children—are progressing satisfactorily-
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Press, Volume LXXX, Issue 24371, 25 September 1944, Page 6
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