EVIDENCE AT INQUEST

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 10 September 1937, Page 6

EVIDENCE AT INQUEST

WOMAN’S DEATH AT TE KUITI COMMENT BY CORONER I B.v Telegraph —Press Associationl TE KUITI, 9th September. “Mrs McGrath made an error of judgment in not calling in a doctor," said the District Coroner, Mr R. M. Somerville, after hearing evidence concerning the death of Isabella Rose Liddell, known as Dolly Liddell, a single woman, aged 22. at Mrs Daisy Margaret McGrath’s home last Saturday morning The finding was that Miss Liddell died from pneumonia, which followed a septic throat and bronchitis. On Saturday last, at 4 a.m.. a doctor was called, and found that Miss Liddell had died about 10 minutes before from heart failure, after pneumonia. A neighbour, Mrs Carlyon, a doctor’s widow, with 40 years’ nursing experience, said that when she saw Miss Liddell on the Thursday before her death fine knew she was a dying girl. She remonstrated with Mrs McGrath, saying: “Dolly is in a terrible state, and l would not have the responsibility for 10 minutes without medical aid.” However, Mrs McGrath said Dolly was then getting better. Mts McGrath, in evidence, said the girl had quinsy, which broke on 26th August. After that she was much easier, and seemed to be slowly getting stronger, and she began to eat better. She ate a mash of vegetables the night before her death, and during the night took barley water. Asked by Constable Fraser why she dpi not call a doctor after Mrs Carlyon’s warning, witness said she wanted to do so, but Miss Liddell said she was. all right.