ABORTION VICTIM

Grey River Argus, 1 December 1938, Page 7

ABORTION VICTIM

CASE OF NEGLECT Strong* Comments [Per Press Association.] AUCKLAND, November 30. “Had this girl received the attention that she should have had, she might not have died. It is a very, very sad case indeed,” said Mr F. K. Hunt, Coroner, at the inquest into the death of Rose Ann Hogan, aged 26 years, single, a machinist, Who died at the Auckland Hospital on September 7. The Coroner severely criticised certain aspects of the case. He said that evidence that previously was given by Dr. Gilmour, the Pathologist at the Auckland Hospital, was to the effect that a post mortem examination showed the young woman’s death to be due to septic abortion. The. deceased had no relatives in Auckland, and. she had arrived from Melbourne early this year, said DetecWalsh. “Here is a poor, friendless girl allowed to die,” said the Coroner, in returning a. verdict of death from septic abortion. He said that the deceased 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. He 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.