DEATH FROM SLIMMING
The story of a girl who slimmed to such an extent that eventually she was unable to eat ordinary food, was told at Willaston, Cheshire, last month. A verdict of death by misadventure was recorded on Phyllis Alma Chadwick, aged 26, Willaston. Miss Amy Clucaa, the girl’s aunt, said slimming became an obsession with Miss Chadwick. She was terrified of becoming fat. She lived chiefly on fruit, and latterly could not eat proper food. She was warned of the danger of what she was doing, and in her last letter to her mother wrote; “I don’t want to die, and I am going to show you all that I can get well.” However, she became very emaciated and thin. Dr Farr said that wdien he saw her in March this year she weighed only 4st 111 b. When he was called to her home on August 29 she was in a state of coma, and died the following day. Her death was due to her inability to eat proper food. She brought on her own death.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22712, 26 October 1935, Page 18
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