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FILE NAME Newspaper & Magazine Articles NMA DATE 1930 Nov 14 DOC NMA021 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Newspaper Article - Woman's Death Mystery 1.391 pron ~ THE BUCKING AMS INE ) ADVERTISER ADVERTISER ADVERTISER Dated 14th November 1930 WOMAN'S WOMAN'S DEATH . MYSTERY Question of Employment Raisel at Inquest i Havelock The mystery surrounding the death of a young Wealdstone woman Florence Flood of 49 was only partly cleared up by the inquest at ; Hendon on Monday ' Factory Barking The husband said his wife worked at the Cape Asbestos from January 1916 to June 1921 and from August when 1921 to January 1923 she left to get married She was never a healthy woman very frail and had a cough He married her in January 1923 and she went as an out- patient to Victoria Park Chest Hospital Bethnal Green about a year after their marriage She was under treatment for about two years and then left off as she was not satisfied with attending the she was making progress When taken ill she was seen by Dr. Gaze of Wealdstone who ordered her to Redhill Hospital where she died after being there a week ; Questioned by the Coroner witness said his wife had three children but had always been able | to look after them and the ; house o . Alfred Charles Jones assistant ; works employ- | smaaindatgheart tahte tbhreeakCaipnedeAcsebaessedt'oss Works ment was owing to strike trouble Examined by Dr. Middleton of the Home Office witness said deceased i wat employed in making asbestos mattresses ; Between 40 and 50 others employed and he thoughtwesreevesriamlilahraldy been so for at least ten years ; Process Not Regarded as Dangerous In reply to Mr. John Russel counsel fo the Company witness said there little dust in the was a process but it was not until a few years ago that they ever hearc of people getting any disease or realized that the employment was in the slightest dangerous A lot of improvements had been effected and the in Company was close collaboration with the Home Office experts as to means of dust from the works extracting Thousands of pounds had been spent on saving devices ' Dr. Annison of Redhill Hospital attributed death to heart failure due to fibrosis of the lungs That was |i by a mortem examinaticoonnfirTmheed _| disease might have been caused by the if inhalation of dust 1 : University \ A report from | the condition of the College as to and Dr. Middleton lungs was put in thought there was | sufficient in it to connect the disease with deceased's employment Dr. Deacon medical Redhill Hospital said superintendent he at regarded fibrosis as the determining cause of death No asbestos however was found in the lungs ' . _ microscopic Dr. Middleton gave it as his i that there was a opinion connection between deceased's employment and the disease The only ground for doubt was that . examination showed that : there was no asbestos in the lungs Summing up the Coroner advised the jury to return a verdict that Mrs. Flood died from fibrosis of the lungs and to leave it at that unless they were certain that death was caused by her The jury accepted the employment Mr. Russel Coroner's advice expressed the Company's elimna acet expressed se