Age: 37
Sex: female
Date: 9 Jan 1926
Place: 63 Alcombe Road, Northampton
Kitty Jane Davis died from blood poisoning after a suspected illegal operation.
She died fourteen hours after she was admitted to Northampton General Hospital with blood poisoning. A doctor said that she had found signs of an abortion when Kitty Davis was admitted to the hospital and that at her post-mortem they found a wound in her womb that had been inflicted with a sharp instrument which had produced the abortion. she said that the interior of her body was gangrenous and that that had been the cause of her death.
see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
see Northampton Mercury - Friday 22 January 1926
see Unsolved 1926