October 31: Scant Information on Young Woman from Puerto Rico

On October 31, 1946, a 24-year-old Puerto Rican woman named Aurora Cruz died at Lincoln Hospital in The Bronx, New York, from a septic abortion. This criminal abortion had caused an abscess and general peritonitis.

Aurora might have sought the abortion because she was unmarried. She had worked as an embroider and lived with her parents, Jose and Maria at 168 Brook Avenue in New York.

I've been unable to find any more information about this unfortunate young woman.