FAILURE TO CALL DOCTOR.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 10 September 1937, Page 7

FAILURE TO CALL DOCTOR.

DEATH OF TE KXJITI WOMAN

(By Telegraph —Press Association.) TE KUITI, Last Night.

Mrs. McGrath made an error of judgment in not calling in a doctor, said the District Coroner, Mr. R. M, Somerville, after hearing the evidence concerning the death of Isabella Rose Liddell, known as Dolly Liddell, a single woman, aged 22, at Mrs.- Dairy Margaret McGrath’s home last Saturday morning. The finding was that deceased died from pneumonia, which followed a septic throat and bronchitis, on Saturday last.

The doctor was called at 4 a.m. and found that deceased had died about ten minutes before from heart failure, following on pneumonia.

A neighbour, Mrs. Carlyon, a doctor 7 s widow, with 40 years’ nursing experience, said that when she saw deceased on 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 iseemed slowly getting stronger and begin to eat better. She ate mush and 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, she said she wanted to do it, but deceased said she was all right.