INQUEST.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1315, 14 August 1886, Page 2

INQUEST.

The inquest was held at the Royal Hotel, yesterday afternoon, before Mr_ H. C. S. Baddelcy, Coroner, and a jury of six, of whom Mr G. Reid was chosen foreman, Touching the death of Henry Tutty, an _ infant two month old, who died that morning. The jury having viewed tne .body the following evidence was taken : Agnes Nelly Tutty, wife of George Henry Tutty and mother of the deceased infant Henry Tutty, said that it was two months old. It had been suffering from a severe cold for about three weeks past. About half-past five that morning it was alive, and shortly after fell asleep. When witness again woke about eight o’clock the child was dead. Witness ran out and told a neighbour and sent lor a doctor. Witness had poulticed the deceased child’s bead, and also put on a piece of flannel. Dr Ross said that he had made a jiort mortem examination of the body of the deceased. The body was that of a well nourished infant. On opening the chest he found that the child had bad inflammation of both lungs, which is almost always fatal, and which was the cause of death in this case. The attack was a recent one, probably of not more than two or three day’s standing. The symptoms accompanying the attack would have caused a practised person to assume something was seriously wrong with the child; an inexperienced person might not think anything beyond a serious cold was the matter. (At this stage the mother’s evidence was read to Dr Ross, who stated the applications were very good under the circumstances). This was all the evidence, and a verdict of Death from natural causes ’’ was returned.