DEATH OF WOMAN

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 132, 1 December 1938, Page 20

DEATH OF WOMAN

CORONER'S COMMENT

"A VERY SAD CASE"

(By Telegraplii-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 indede," said Mr. F. K. Hunt, Coroner, alf an, inquest into the death of Rose AnnHogan, aged 26, single, a machinisbf who died in the Auckland Hospital on September [7, He severely criticised certain aspects of the-case. .-The Coroner said that evidence previously given Tjy Dr.' Gilmo'ur, pathologist at the Auckland Hospital, was to the effect that a,posii-mortem,,examina-tion showed death to be due to septic abortion. '■ ,\.. Miss Hogan had' no relatives in Auckland and had arrived from Melbourne early this year, said DetectiveSergeant 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 apartmenthouse where "she would receive no attention. Fortunately the woman of the house gave what help she could. "The town is full of charitable people who would have been only too glad to give every assistance," , added the Coroner.