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Joan Sissons Metcalfe

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.


*map pointers are rough estimates based on known location details as per Place field above.

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