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after her customary evening swim and told Marie to call her at
six the next morning. She kept by her bedside a phial of proprie­
tary barbiturates known as ‘Dial’ and she took a fatal dose during
the night.
Her death was certified by Dr W. Dunlop, director of the
Royal Hospital Baghdad, as having occurred from Dial poisoning
in the early morning of July 12th, 1926, two days before her
fifty-eighth birthday.

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