| 词条 | Susannah Lattin |
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| name = Susannah Lattin | image = Fallen gravestone of Susannah Lattin (1848-1868) in Powell Cemetery in 2002.jpg | caption = Fallen gravestone in Powell Cemetery in 2002 | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|mf=yes|1848|1|7}} | birth_place = Farmingdale, New York | death_date = {{Death date and age|mf=yes|1868|8|27|1848|1|7}} | death_place = Manhattan | death_cause = Postpartum infection | known_for = Abortion debate }} Susannah Lattin (January 7, 1848 – August 27, 1868) was an American woman who died of a postpartum infection at an illegal maternity clinic at 6 Amity Place in New York City, operated by Henry Dyer Grindle.[1] Her death led to an investigation which resulted in regulation of maternity clinics and adoptions in New York City in 1868.[2][3]Early lifeLattin was born in Farmingdale on Long Island. Around 1867, Lattin moved from Farmingdale to Williamsburg in Brooklyn, where she lived with her cousin Andrew Wood.[1] Unplanned pregnancy{{Unreferenced section|date=December 2018}}Lattin became pregnant by George C. Houghton; he was a clerk at Whitehouse's boot and shoe store on Fulton Street, Brooklyn. He paid $50 to Dr. J.C. Harrison to perform an abortion, but Lattin did not go through with it. She was still hoping that Houghton would marry her. Houghton then quit his job and moved to Philadelphia, to escape the situation. Lattin next went to her cousin, George H. Powell who worked as a butcher at the Washington Market to help her. He pretended to be her husband and arranged for her, as "Mrs. Smith", to see Dr. Henry D. Grindle, who ran an unauthorized "lying-in" hospital that allowed pregnant woman to have their children and have them illegally adopted. The doctor wanted her to pay $150, but she could only pay $100 and he accepted it.[3] DeathLattin checked into the lying-in hospital on August 5, 1868, then a few weeks later she delivered a healthy baby boy who was adopted anonymously without any record kept of the adoptive parents. Around August 18, 1868, she developed a postpartum infection. The medical student who attended to her realized Susannah was in serious condition and was not likely to survive, and he persuaded her to tell him her real name so he could notify her family. The message got to her parents after she had died. Coroner Aaron B. Rollins investigated the death.[3]
Inquest verdict
References1. ^1 {{cite news |author= |title=A Mysterious Case. A Missing Daughter Found Dead In a Private Lying-In Hospital. The Case in the Hands of the Coroner.|newspaper=New York Times |date=August 29, 1868 }} 2. ^{{cite book |last=Hoolihan |first=Christopher |authorlink= |title=An Annotated Catalogue of the Edward C. Atwater Collection of American Popular Medicine and Health Reform |year=2001 |publisher=Boydell & Brewer | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zFKvimYMHloC&dq |isbn=1580460984}} 3. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite news |title=The Amity Place Mystery|publisher=New York Times |date=August 30, 1868 }} 4. ^{{cite news |author= |title=Daughter of a Resident of Farmingdale Dies under Suspicious Circumstances. The Body Found in a Lying-in Hospital| url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Susannah_Lattin_(1848-1868)_in_the_Brooklyn_Eagle_on_August_29,_1868.jpg |via=Wikicommons |newspaper=Brooklyn Eagle |date=August 29, 1868 |accessdate=2012-07-11 }} External links
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6 : 1848 births|1868 deaths|People from Farmingdale, New York|Abortion in the United States|Deaths from peritonitis|Healthcare in New York City |
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