DEATH FROM SLIMMING
CRAZE ENDS GIRL’S LIFE. 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 Clucas, the girls aunt, said slimming became an obsession •with Miss Chadwick. She was terrified of becoming fat. She lived chiefly on fruit and laterly could not eat proper She was warned of the danger of what she was doing, and in her last letter to her mother wrote: “I dont want to die, and I am going to show you all that I can get well again. However, she became very emaciated and thin. ... , Dr Farr said that when 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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Southland Times, Issue 22732, 7 November 1935, Page 2
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