SAD CASE OF DESTITUTION.
A WOMAN WHO DIED RATHER THAN BEG. Christchurch, June 20. Yesterday a respectable woman named Elizabeth Harvey died of exhaustion produced by want, at the cottage of a poor woman named Mrs Anderson, who took her In. Sbe had been in bad health and unable to do much work for 12 months, but she would not seek charitable aid till lately, when she started to go to the office, but was unable to get there. Mrs Anderson com. municated with the authorities on Friday, and called in Dr Moorhonae, who attended the woman till she died, and certified that death resulted from exhaustion |combiued with lung disease and bronchitis.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1060, 23 June 1892, Page 20
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113SAD CASE OF DESTITUTION. New Zealand Mail, Issue 1060, 23 June 1892, Page 20
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