“LAY ROTTING AWAY”
YOUNG WOMAN’S DEATH MOTHER CENSURED NO MEDICAL ATTENTION (For Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. “After hearing the evidence, I consider that the mother of the deceased deserves the severest censure for not obtaining medical aid for this unfortunate girl, who lay practically rotting away for three or four months without any proper attention. This is the most distressing case I have ever heard,” said the coroner, Mr. F. K. Hunt, in finding at the inquest this morning that Anita Kate Walker, aged 21, died at her home, Epsom, of sarcoma, a malignant growth on the leg, for which she had objected to submit to amputation last September, stating that she would rather die than give up dancing. As the doctors could do nothing for her, she thought faith healing might. Evidence showed that an advanced growth had become a wound in a gangrenous state. The coroner commented on the fact that the girl had received no medical attention in the eight months prior to her death.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19371, 8 July 1937, Page 15
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