ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
A young woman named Catherine Cunningham, daughter of Bernard Cunningham, currier, of Abbotsford, died very suddenly yesterday morning. She had been ailing for the past sixteen years, and had been attended to during that time by several doctors, the last to see her being Dr Martin, who was called in about two months ago. On Saturday night, about ten o'clock, she retired to her room, apparently in her usual state of health. Yesterday morning at half-past eight, before she rose, she was spoken to by one of the members of the household, and, on making an effort to reply, she was seized with a violent fit of coughing, and vomited about three pints of blood. Dr Will was at once sent for, but the girl died before he arrived. She was twentythree years age. It is supposed that the cause of death was a rupture of a blood vessel in the lungs. An inquest on the body was held at Mr Cunningham's residence this afternoon, before Mr Carew and a jury, but it had not concluded when we went to press. -Evening Star, 28/9/1891.
INQUEST.
An inquest was held at Abbotsford yesterday, before Mr Coroner Carew and a jury, on the body of Catherine Cunningham, who died suddenly at her fathers residence on Sunday morning.
Bernard Cunningham, currier, deposed that the body shown to the jury was that of his daughter. She was born at Caversham, and was twenty-three years of age. She had been suffering from bad health for about fourteen years. Dr Martin was the last medical man to see her, and he saw her about three months ago. He said she was suffering from consumption. Witness noticed no change in her on Saturday. She seemed right enough then. Oa Sunday morning, at about a quarter to nine, she came up to his bedroom. He heard her coughing before that. When she came to his room she was coughing up blood a good deal. She asked him to go for a doctor, and he went for Dr Will. The doctor returned to the house with him. When they got to the house, after less than an hour's absence, he found his daughter was dead. She used to cough up a little blood some time ago, but never so much as on Sunday. She had been to Drs Maunsell and Batchelor before she went to Dr Martin. He had had a nurse in the house to look after her.
Mary Walsh deposed that she had been employed as nurse to the deceased since last Wednesday. She noticed no change in her up to Sunday morning. Deceased used to get up in the daytime. At half-past eight on Sunday morning she went into her room and told her breakfast was ready, but that her father was not up. Deceased said she would take her breakfast into his bedroom for him. She was getting out of bed. She had been coughing a little while and threw up some phlegm, and when she got out of bed she threw up a little blood. Witness asked her what she could do for her, as she thought she seemed in danger. Deceased said: "Send for the doctor." She hurried into her father's bedroom, as though frightened. She brought up some blood again, and fell back into witness's arms and seemed to be dying. Her father assisted witness to carry her and put her into bed. He then went away for the doctor. She died in her father's room just after throwing up the blood. At about half-past six witness went into deceased's room, but did not speak to her. She seemed all right then aa usual.
Dr Will deposed that at about nice o clock on Sunday morning he got word that Catherine Cunningham had just died suddenly, and he went to her father's house at once. When he arrived the body had been dressed for burial. He made an outward examination of the body, and it presented all the outward appearance of a person long ill from consumption. There was blood in her mouth and on her lips, and in her father's bedroom he was shown a large quantity of blood. From what he knew of her, and the account of the rush of blood from her mouth, he had no doubt that she died from the rupture of a blood vessel in the lungs, which was a common form of death from consumption.
The jury returned a verdict to the effect that death resulted from phthisis. -Evening Star, 29/9/1891.
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