February 10, 1941: Scanty Information on Self-Induced Abortion

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I'm always looking for more cases of abortion mortality that I can learn from. New York death records cite the February 10, 1941 death of Anita Luhs, nee Mavaro, She worked as an operator in a dress factory -- though it's not clear if she operated a switchboard of a machine. 

Anita was 40 years old and lived with her husband, Walter, on Linden Street in New York. Anita had come to the US from Italy 28 years earlier. She had been living with her parents on East 149th Street at the time of the 1940 census, along with her three children, ages 11, 9, and 4.

Her death at Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn was attributed to "septic endometritis following self-induced abortion."

That's all I've been able to learn.

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