FATAL SLIMMING CRAZE
GIRL BECOMES INSANE r How a girl's fear of becoming fat drove her insane, and then to suicide, was revealed at the inquest at Birmingham in February on Ethel Mary C'ope, aged 21, who gassed herself. A relative said tho girl had been undergoing a slimming diet for several months, and toward the end of last year she became eccentric. " She grew careless about her appearanco and would not go out of doors," sho said. A verdict of suicide while of unsound mind was returned. A friend said afterwards:—" Ethel was naturally slim, but sho became obsessed with tho fear that sho might get fat. For long spells she ate nothing but fruit. Sho lived on one coconut for days."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21467, 15 April 1933, Page 2 (Supplement)
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