Philadelphia County PA Archives Obituaries.....Annie A. AGNEW, 1883
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October 12, 1883
Philadelphia Inquirer

                        ANNIE AGNEW’S DEATH
            The Coroner’s Jury Determines it is Due to 
                            Meningitis.
  The death of Annie A. Agnew, aged twenty-one, who lived at
No. 2104 Fairfield street, and died on Saturday last, at the Episcopal
Hospital, was investigated by the Coroner yesterday. She was
admitted to the hospital on September 20, with an abscess on her
scalp. the disease caused her great pain, and sometimes she was
mentally distracted. Once, while in this condition, she said her sister
struck her with a poker. She had been with her sister just previous to her
removal to the hospital, and had then complained of pains. Dr. Carpenter,
of the hospital staff, certified that meningitis was the cause of death, but 
Edward Agnew, a brother of the deceased, endeavored to show that she was 
the victim of malpractices at the hands of a doctor living at  Fifteenth
and Race street. A post mortem made by Dr. George W. Vogeler did not
sustain the charge, and the jury gave a verdict of death from meningitis.




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