Age: 6 months
Sex: female
Date: 1 Feb 1917
Place: Swine
Joan Sissons Metcalfe was exhumed after the woman that had been caring for him at the time of his death was charged with the murder of another child that she had poisoned.
Joan Metcalfe died on 1 February 1917 at which time the doctor gave a certificate that death was due to diarrhoea.
see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
see Driffield Times - Saturday 31 March 1917
see Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Tuesday 06 March 1917
see Leeds Mercury - Thursday 15 February 1917
see Hull Daily Mail - Wednesday 28 February 1917
see Hull Daily Mail - Monday 05 March 1917
see Unsolved 1917