Dossier concerning Hu Cuishi (胡翠氏), a 39-year-old woman, who died in Shanghai on 22 May 1944 after jumping from a building. The police documentation explicitly describes her as a person suffering from 瘋病 and investigates the death as suicide. A medical report was obtained following the incident, and the body was subsequently transferred for formal judicial examination.
The police investigation records that Hu had suffered from what family members described as 瘋病 for nearly three years. On the morning of 22 May, she was outside the family residence with her daughter, Hu Qiuzhen (胡秋珍). Hu asked her daughter to go inside to fetch tea; when the daughter returned, her mother had disappeared. A search revealed Hu's body lying near the rear entrance of 321 Lane, Hankou Road (漢口路三二一弄後門口), with injuries resulting from the fall. The dossier contains the initial police death report, medical documentation, statements from Hu Qiuzhen and other witnesses or relatives, police correspondence, a judicial inquest, and a detailed examination of the corpse. The final medico-legal documentation attributes death to injuries sustained in the fall.
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