Age: 38
Sex: female
Date: 1 Apr 1959
Place: The Council Houses, Parsonage Lane, Chilcompton
Mary Joan Purnell died from septicaemia following a toxic septic abortion.
It was not known how the abortion had come about and an open verdict was returned, it being noted that the evidence did not fully disclose how her death had been caused.
see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
see Somerset Guardian and Radstock Observer - Friday 08 May 1959
see Somerset Guardian and Radstock Observer - Friday 10 April 1959
see Unsolved 1959
