THAMES NEWS.
PATHETIC SUICIDE.
HOSPITAL PATEEINir OUTS HIS THROAT.
A suicide under paithstie oiroumbtantes took place at the Thames Hospital to-day, when a patient named Ctement Miiller cut his thi-oat. The unfortiinate man suffered) from miners' complaint, which is synonymous to consumlption, and was neariug the end. When the warse Avemit to the con-HiuiiptiA-|a sliielter she was horrified to find iMliller dead,, a.nd she gave the ahum. The decieased, who was about 53 years of agei, came from the Olhinermiuri districit. He hiad been a miner foi 1 years, but had been compelled to relinquish his oociupaltdom oAving to the advance of thalt di^ad. disease miners' phthisis. ■ Of late hisi condition had been bad, and it was not believed that he could live much longer. Evidently the unfortunate man also 1 realised this fact and, his mind, uinhinged through the inroads of the terrible disease frotml which he, had suffered so long, he decided to tail* his orvytn life.. An inquest Avto held at the hospital this afternoon.
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Thames Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 10200, 2 May 1912, Page 2
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