“A FACT WORTH KNOWING.”
Last week the West Ham Coroner held an inquest respecting the death of Charlotte Taylor, aged thirty-four years, a widow, who died in the Seamen’s Hospital, after being found in the water of the Royal Albert Docks. It appeared that on Monday evening week the deceased, a washerwoman, went on board the s.s. Rosarian, lying in the Royal Albert Docks, where she received several bundles of washing. Later on the bundles were found on a barge lying alongside the ship. The chief steward and another officer beard the deceased groaning in the water, and succeeded in getting her into the barge. She was given some whisky, and eventually removed to the Seamen’s Hospital, where she died the following morning. A juror asked the doctor if whisky was the right thing to give a person who bad fallen into the water. The doctor ; No, certainly not ; it is about the worst, and in this case hastened death. A juoror : This is a fact worth knowing. The jury returned a verdict of‘Found drowned/ Temperance Record, September 30, 1897.
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Southern Cross, Volume 5, Issue 45, 12 February 1898, Page 7
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