FRIENDLESS GIRL

Evening Star, Issue 23129, 1 December 1938, Page 21

FRIENDLESS GIRL

DEATH FOLLOWS NEGLECT ANOTHER SEPTIC ABORTION CASE [Per United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, November 30. “ Had this girl received the attention she should have had she might not have died. It is a very sad case indeed, said Mr F. K. Hunt, coroner, at the inquest into the death of Rose Ann Hogan, aged 26, a single machinist, who died at the Auckland Hospital on September 7. He severely criticised certain aspects of the case. The Coroner said that_ the evidence previously given by Dr Gilmour, pathologist at the Auckland Hospital, was to the eifect that a post mortem examination showed death to be due to septic abortion. The deceased had no relatives in Auckland and had arrived from Melbourne early this year. “Here is a poor, friendless girl, allowed to die,” said the Coroner, returning a verdict of death from septic abortion, He,said the deceased’s 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 bo took her to an apartment house 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.