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Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 134, 3 December 1910, Page 13

DOCTOR'S TRAGIC END.

DEVOTED TO THE POOR. j „ ** " " The body of Dr. Walter Strover, of Mintern House, New North-road, Hoxton, N., was found on 10th October after he had been missing since 21st I September. The telegram announcing the discovery reached London within an hour of the time fixed for Mrs. Strover's funeral. She had been a helpless paralytic for years, and had died some days after his departure from home. "Her death," said a fried, "was probably hastened by grief.'' The doctor's body was found much decomposed at a lonely spot near Sandy, in Bedfordshire, by a male nurse, who summoned the police. A doctor was at once fetched, who, by a coincidence, happened to be Dr. W. Strover's younger brother, who practises at Sandy. He, however, failed to recognise the body. The man had apparently opened the arteries of his wrists with a small pocket knife found near by, and had bled to death. DEVOTED TO THE POOR. Dr. Walter Strover was fifty-six years of age, and was at one time medical officer of health for Chingford. For twenty years he had been established in practice at Hoxton, and at one time was fconsidered fairly well off. Latterly, however, the practice had declined. . Dr. Strover, it appears, relinquished several /other lucrative connections in order that he might devote the whole of his time to the poor of North London. One who knew him well for the past fifteen years said to a reporter : "There is no doubt he sacrificed a fortune for the poor of Hoxton and neighbourhood He was beloved by thousands. I have known him refuse money in hundreds of cases where he ought to have taken it. He thought of others and not of himself.