Evening Chronicle Lookup for Inquest 30 December 1929

[patren]

Could anyone please do a lookup for an Inquest on the death of my mother's sister - Mary Teresa Ross who died 29th December 1929 at 135 Carville Road, Byker aged 7 years.  The story in the family was that she died of "sleepy sickness", but on the death cert., which I have just received, the cause of death is given as "Heart Failure and Acute Gastro Enteritis". The cert was received from the Coroner with a note that an Inquest was held 30th December 1929.
Many thanks
Patricia

[dawnsh]

Hi Patricia

Is there anything else that would make this story 'newsworthy'? And do you know it was definitely 'in the paper'?

As sad as the circumstances are, I would suggest that the majority of childrens deaths (by 1929) would go un-reported unless the cause was extremely rare.

Dawn

[patren]

Thanks Dawn for your reply. I am not sure if it was "in the paper", thought it could be as the cert was issued by the coroner. 
My mother and her brother, then aged 11 and 15 were present when Mary died, and the only thing I wondered about was the difference in what they said she died from, and the actual cause of death on the cert
Many thanks
Patricia

[nort]

Hi Patricia,i had a look at the Evening Chronicles on microfiche in the library today.Unfortunately the editions from 21st December 1929 to 1st January 1930 are missing.I had a look for death notices or an inquest report for the days after that but couldn't see one.The newspapers on microfiche for those days seem to be in a mess with tears and foldovers etc so were difficult to make sense of.Sorry.

Steve

[patren]

Hi Steve,
Please excuse the delay in replying.  I have been away and have just seen your post.  Many thanks for taking the trouble to look for me.
Regards
Patricia