According to Vermont death records, 24-year-old Alice E. Kendall of Baltimore, Vermont, attempted to perform an abortion on herself using a catheter in the winter of 1931.
According to the 1930 census, Alice was married to a farmer and they had a toddler daughter and a boarder who lived with them.
Alice developed peritonitis, went into septic shock, and died on December 28.
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