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PRACTICE." LONDON LADY'S TRAGIC DEATH. FOUND DEAD IN HER BATH.
The danger of taking very hot baths. was emphis Mentorical witnesses at tha inquest at Marylebone on the Hon. Mrs, Rhona Margaret Ada Smith, wife of Colonel Bertram Abel Smith.
Mrs. Smith was found dead in her bath at her home in Montagu Square, London, Mr. H. E. Oswald, the coroner, found that death was due to coma, due to core- bral anaemia, consequent upon immer sion, in the hot bath, and in that sea was due to natural causes. a
"But I must take into consideration," he continued, the fact that coma was brought about by immersion in the bath, which makes death due to accidoutal causes"
"NO BUGGESTION OF SUICIDE.” "Thore is no suggestion af anything like suïcide, he added.
Mrs. Smith, who was 48 years old, was the youngest daughter, of the fourth Baron Sudeley, and a sister of the pre-! scat peer. The inquiry was conducted] without a jury.
Colonel Smith said that his wife seem ed in quite normal health. He went to France, but on Sunday morning received a telegram calling him back. When be reached home he was informed that his wife was dead."
Last November, he continued, his wife was operated on for appendicitis, but she never recovered her normal strength. She was ill for some time after the opera tion, and was under the doctor's care for three months. She had never been the same woman since, although, apart from this trouble, she had always enjoyed good health."
"My wife," he said, "was in the habit I believe, of taking hot baths. Some years ago she was seized with faintness while taking a bath, but recovered in time to get out:
.DE. BRONTE'S EVIDENCE
Dr. Bronte, the pathologist, said a post mortem examination revealed no marks of external injuries. The Brain, except of, well-marked anemia, was normal The heart was small, weighing only Tjos; but there were no signs of disease. There were no traces of poison in the bedy. Death, in his opinion, was caused by coma, due to cerebral anemis.
DAY JUNE 29TH,
THE UNEMPLOYMENT IN EUROPE DEPRESSING REPORT ON GERMANY AND AUSTRIA.
FROM GENEVA LABOUR OFFICE
A recent sus of Industrial and Labour Information, the oncini weexry tion of the International Labour Office, gives figures showing the rapid increase of unemployment in Germany and Austrian daring the last few months.
"As regards Germany, while at the ber ginning of 105 the number of wholly unemployed persons was about 200,000, it had risen by December 15th, 1925, to 1,067,031 and by January 1st, 1928, ta 1,433,879. To this Agure should be added at least an equal number of unemployed. who are not entitled to relief under the Act, and an equal number of partially unemployed persons, making a total of more than 4,000,000. -
The crisis would appear to be the result mainly of defiating and the lack of capital; and is particularly severe in the mining and metal industries, which are suffering from foreign competition. Thus, in the mining basin of the Buhr alone, the number of workers occupied fell by 70,000 in the first ten months of 1923 (from 170,000 to 400,000). In the metal working industry the percentage of on- employed among the trade unionists at the end of November was 8.3 for wholly unemployed persona, and 24.9 for par tally unemployed."
The situation is-also critical among commercial employees and bank clerks, of whom about 100,000 were out of work at the end of 1925. The number of bankruptcies, which in the pre-war period, was or an average 800 a month;
ose to 1,900 in October, 1925.
AUSTRIA'S CONDITION."
As regards Austria, the Minister of Social Welfare in the course of a debate in the Austrian Parliament on December 29th last, stated that the number of unem ployed in receipt of relief was 179,000. To this figure should be added 6,000 nem- played in receipt of extraordinary relief (.e...0 per cent. of the ordinary allo- Lance, the cost being borno-entirely by the employers and workers), and from 20 to 25 per cent of the total unemploy ed persons who have exhausted their rights under- the Act. This gives a total of about 240,000 which, as the num her of insured persons is about a million; represents some 25 per cent. of the persons Covered
Dr. Bronte stated that a very hot bath would have brought about this condition of coma,
The Coroner. It is very dangerous-to- boil yourself in this way-Yes, especially BONGKONG STOCK EXCHANGE.
after a meal.
Dr. Bronte said that Mrs Smith had not died of drowning. The heat of the bath might have drawn the blood from her brain, and she might have died before ber head went under water.
***NO LIFE ABOUT HER Dr. Norman S. Gilchrist, of Harley Street, said he had been treating Mrs. Smith since her operation of appen dicitis.
She never felt ill and never felt well, he said She had no energy, no lie about her.
Dr. Gilchrist said he was summoned to Montage Square. The door of the bath. room was locked, and with the help of a policeman he forced it open. Although the water had been in the bath for about
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Smith had probably been dead about eight or ten hours,
andvisable," said **It is extremely the witness, to take very hot baths; in fact. It is & very dangerous practice
The heat of the water, he explained. drew the blood away from the brain and caused cerebral anemia and consequent loss of power. Partial anemia, might possibly cause death from drowning.
Emily Eliza Perkins, employed as a maid, said that Mrs. Smith had been confined to her room for the previous ten
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On the following morning at. 8.15, con- tinueck witness, she visited the bedroom, but her mistress was not there On trying the bathroom she found it was locked, and not getting an answer she gave the alarm...
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Extract from letter from the Board of China Taghts (combined)....22 nom. Trade, London, dated February 25th. 1928: The Board of Customs and Excise also state that, as regards the Chins Providents application of the silk and lace dutico to Constructions the personal belongings of overscas re- Dairy Farms sidents coming to this, country for a holier A Wings day, in practice duty is not charged on Hongkong Blectrion any-article of dress, etc, being worn or Macso Electrica carried by passengers as part of their HK Ropes (combine
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Large portione of the estate, which is in the old Brentford srca, south of Acton and east of Ealing, had already been sold for factory and bossing enterprises, but the central park With its two minusions. and other interesting buildings, beautiful ponds and ornamental gardens, covering an area of 200 sores, remained intact
It was this area which the Council re solved to acquire, and they met with a ready response from the Rothschild family. The purchase price was fixed at £125,000, fat below the market value, and of this Acton proportionate, share wh £45,342 and Ealing £81,070,
An empty wallet was the only posses sion of a man whose body was washed ashore as Canvey Island. His descrip The Middlesex County Council contri tion in: Aged between 35 and 40; height buted 233,138, under its resolution to bear 6ft 3in brown hair, olean shaven; proportionate cost of the purchase of tattooed on bis right forearm with cross all approved open spaces in the county ed flags and a crown, and on the left Mr. Neville Chamberlain was received forearm another flag and the represente by the Ealing and Acton Town Councils, tion of a woman. The body is supposed and representatives of the Chipwick and to have been in the water from three, Brentford Urban District Councils,- as, to four weeks. He was dressed in a Line well us by a large concourse of the general serge Bull and seaman's jersey
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