Isabella

1874 - 1914  (40 years)

• Name	Isabella
  Born	1874	Dublin, Dublin, Leinster, Ireland
  Gender	Female
  Name	Isabella Dempsey
  Occupation	nurse
  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-144591
  Died	12 Apr 1914	North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
  	Cause: acute alcoholism (4 or 5 hours)
  Person ID	I144591	Generations
  Last Modified	6 Apr 2024

  
  

  Family	Charles F. Dempsey,   b. Abt 1874,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Last Modified	7 Apr 2024
  Family ID	F36292	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Alcohol Killed Nurse At Galt - Spirits Were Given By Drug Store Without Doctor's Order Special to The Toronto World - Galt, April 15 1914 - At the adjourned inquest this evening into the mysterious death of Mrs. Charles F. Dempsey, a trained nurse, who died suddenly on Sunday night at the farm of Robert Jamieson, six miles from town, where she was engaged professionally, a verdict was returned stating the cause of death as "from an overdose of alcohol, taken as a heart stimulant." The woman, according to the testimony of two local druggists, had sent to Galt for alcohol, ostensibly for her patient, but in reality to imbibe. At Dickson's store the messenger was refused, there being no doctor's order. But Columbia spirits, a purified wood alcohol, was given, and the bottle labeled "For external use only." At Meikleham's, however, a bottle of wood alcohol was secured, the label being merely "Alcohol," and the understanding being that it was only for external application. The circumstances that this latter distillation was drunk by the nurse, accounted for her sudden death, as the post-mortem disclosed. Mrs. Dempsey had been living in town two years and pursuing her calling as a nurse. She was a middle-aged woman with two children. The husband has been employed in the states. She was well known. The Toronto Sunday World - 16 Apr 1914

  
  

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  Born - 1874 - Dublin, Dublin, Leinster, Ireland Died - Cause: acute alcoholism (4 or 5 hours) - 12 Apr 1914 - North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  = Link to Google Earth