INQUEST.
An inquest was held at the Hospital at noon to-day before the district coroner and a jury of twelve on the body of Margaret Campbell alias Pearson, who died in that Institution on Tuesday evening. Deceased was forty-two years of age, unmarried, a native of* Glasgow, and a Presbyterian. On the sth of October last she was received into the Gaol to undergo a sentence of twelve months' imprisonment, inflicted for being a vagrant. She was taken ill last Saturday, and on the recommendation of £|r Burns she was removed to the Hospital on the Monday. Dr Roberts found that she was suffering from obstruction of the bowels, which deceased said she had had for a fortnight. A further examination disclosed the fact that it was a case of strangulated rupture, and in order to relieve her an operation was performed. She, however, did not get better, but died on Tuesday evening. The jury returned a verdict to the effect that deceased died from strangulated hernia.
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Evening Star, Issue 5914, 23 February 1882, Page 2
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167INQUEST. Evening Star, Issue 5914, 23 February 1882, Page 2
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