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Inquest over the Remains of Susannah Lattin (1868)

Dr. Dorn called and said deceased had fever and diarrhea; understood him afterward to say that she bad typhoid fever; she grew gradually worse, and another physician, Dr. Finnell, of West Houston-street, was called in; when she had grown very weak she told witness to tell her parents to come and see her, and gave hint the address of a man named Powell, in Fulton Market, who could tell him the way to her home; recognized Powell as the same man who called upon deceased three or four times during her illness under the name of Smith.
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Inquest over the Remains of Susannah Lattin (1868)

A. They are put in a cradle and brought up on a bottle; those ladies that bring their infants there to he adopted out are treated it the same way; the child of the deceased was taken away several days after its birth; could not say who it was took the child away; several ladies called for the purpose of procuring children to adopt; Dr. Grindle attended deceased after her confinement, and when he was leaving the City pronounced the condition of the patient quite satisfactory
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Inquest over the Remains of Susannah Lattin (1868)

The doctor said he was afraid that the diarrhea would increase and fever set in; a few days after my arrival the doctor told me that deceased had typhoid fever; that was on either Tuesday or Wednesday last; the they after my arrival I asked her if she had a mother, and she replied that she had a good mother; I asked if she would not like to see her mother, and deceased replied yes, but she did not wish them to know her whereabouts just then; I asked her it her parents knew of her condition, and she said she believed they mistrusted her
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