Accessibility Of Drug'
(P.A.) DUNEDIN, This- Day. The evident accessibility of a certain drug in quantity on production of a prescription was commented on by the Coroner (Mr. H. W. Bundle) at an inquest into tiie death of Mrs. Elizabeth Elliott Gillespie Millar, aged 60. Deceased had been in ill-health and told a taxi-driver that she intended to commit suicide. The police saw her and she then denied any such intention, but the same evening she was found unconscious in the street clutching a bottle of tablets. Others were found in her purse, some of which were given her by a friend who had secured them on a doctor’s prescription. A verdict of poisoning through an overdose of a drug self-administered while in a stale of depression was returned.
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Northern Advocate, 25 February 1944, Page 4
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129Accessibility Of Drug' Northern Advocate, 25 February 1944, Page 4
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