CHILD SCALDED.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20099, 1 December 1930, Page 5

CHILD SCALDED.

PULLED OVER POT OF BOILING WATER. The inquest into the death of Natalie Colleen Fitzgibbon, aged one and a half years, who died aS the result of scalds she received when she pulled a pot of boiling water over herself, was held before the Coroner, Mr E. D. Mosley, on Saturday morning. James Fitzgibbon, the father of the little girl, and a farmer at North Loburn, said that On Wednesday evening last he was sitting before the fiid playing with two of his daughters who were on his knees. Natalie reached out denly and grabbed a saucepan of Water that was boiling on the range and spilt it over herself. He had wrapped he* in oily bandages and taken her to a doctor, who ordered her removal to tho hospital. Dr. D. JG. Orchard, a house surgeon at the Christchurch Public Hospital, gave evidence as to the scalds the infant had received. They Were very extensive, he said, and although she rallied during Thursday she collapsed and died on Friday evening. Mr Mosley returned a verdict that the child met her death accidentally frdni severe scalds received by ptllling a saucepan of boiling water over hdrself. He expressed sympathy with the dead girl's parents.