Miss Jean McLean Martin, British, matron of the Shanghai Municipal Police Hospital, was killed yesterday morning as a result of a fall from the roof of! the Police Hospital building in Ward Road, adjoining the Ward Road Jail.
Miss Martin, who was a native of Scotland and formerly on the staff of the Municipal Isolation "Hospital and had lived in Shanghai for a number of years met, her death at about 10 o'clock. Her body was taken from the pavement where she had fallen, and placed in a Fire Brigade ambulance. The ambulance took the woman to the General Hospital where she was pronounced dead. Later, the body was removed to the parlours of the International Funeral Directors in Kiaochow Rodd.
An inquest will be held by HM. Coroner, and will open today.
Miss Martin was the second member of the Police Hospital nursing staff to die within three days. On Friday of last week, Miss Amelia Zita Davies, assistant matron, died at the Country Hospital. Funeral services for Miss Davies will be held this morning, with interment at the Bubbling Well Cemetery.
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