ACCIDENTALLY POISONED.
A distressing case of the poisoning of a clergyman's family is reported from Dorsetskire. At the latter end of last week the wife and four children of the Rev. T. A. Falkner, of Weymouth, were suddenly seized with illness which took the form of gastric fever. Mrs. Falkner has since succumbed to the disease, and the children are scarcely expected to recover. It appears that on the day the family were taken ill a portion of a rat's tail was discovered in the water used for tea. This water had come from a tank which had been unused for some time, and the dead body of a rat was found there. The spring water generally used for the house was some distance off, and the tank was used by the servant, as she was in a hurry at the time. The circumstance has cast quite a gloom over Weymouth.—Times, March 16.
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Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 455, 26 June 1871, Page 2
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153ACCIDENTALLY POISONED. Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 455, 26 June 1871, Page 2
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