WOMAN'S DEATH

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 62, 10 September 1937, Page 5

WOMAN'S DEATH

VERDICT AT INQUEST

(By Telegraph—Press Association:) TE KUITI, September 9. "Mrs. .McGrath made an error of judgment in .not calling in a doctor," said the district Coroner, .Mr. R. M. Somerville, after hearing evidence concerning the death of Isabella Rose Liddell, known as Dolly Liddell, a single woman, aged 22, at Mrs. Daisy Margaret McGrath's home last Saturday morning. The finding was that the deceased died from pneumonia, which followed a septic throat and. bronchitis. On Saturday last at 4 a.m. a doctor was called and found Miss Liddell had died about 10 minutes before from heart failure .following on pneumonia. A neighbour, Mrs. Carlyon, a doctor's widow with 40 years' nursing experience, said when she saw Miss Liddell on the Thursday prior to her. death she knew she was a dying girl. She remonstrated with Mrs. McGrath, saying: "Dolly is in a terrible state, and I would not have the responsibility for ten minutes without medical aid." However. Mrs. McGrath said .Dolly was then getting better.

Mrs.~ McGrath, in evidence, said the girl had quinsy, which broke on August 26. After that she was much easier, and seemed slowly to be getting stronger and began to eat better. She ate mashed vegetables the night before her death, and during the night took barley water.

Asked by Constable Fraser why she did not call a doctor after Mrs. Carlyon's warning., witness said she wanted to do so, but Miss Liddell said she was all right.