SUMMARY: Millie T, age 25, died on December 22 or 23, 1908 in Cook County Hospital after an abortion perpetrated by a midwife.

On December 22, 1908, “Miss T,” whom I’ve dubbed “Millie,” was admitted to Cook County Hospital. For several days she had suffered abdominal and pelvic pain, along with some bleeding, after an abortion performed by a midwife.

On admission Millie appeared weak and restless. She had bouts of vomiting. Her abdomen was distended and tender. Her vital signs were alarming: pulse of 156, respirations of 36, and a temperature of 105.

She was considered moribund upon admission and died twelve hours later.

Source: “A Study Of and Deductions From Fifty Fatal Cases of Puerperal Fever,” Dr. Herbert Marion Stowe, Surgery Gynecology and Obstetrics, 1912, Part 1 and Part 2

I have been unable to find a death record for a woman with last initial T listed as dying in Chicago on December 22 or 23, 1908: