DEATH FROM SHOCK.
YOUNG BOY SCALDED. A t L While! playing in the kitchen at his parents' bouse, Birdlihg's on Tuesday afternoon, a three pnd a half year old boy, Charles Alan Jones, tipped <a saucepan of boiling rice over himself, and.died in St. George's Hospital, following night from shock. An inquest was held jit the hospital yesterday before Mr' E. D. Mosley, Coroner, Sergeant J. Wolfindale representing the police. Dr. W. Irving said that hp saw tho child vat St* George's Hospital a little before 6 p.m. on Wednesday. He was then suffering from very, severe shock. He had been attended by. Dr. Traill and there was no .occasion to touch the dressings. "Efforts, were made to combat the'shock, l>ut at 11 p.m. his condition'grew worse and he died at about midnight. The scalds were on the back', the back of the head and the :ueck. Death was due to &tock. Hector- Hugh Kipling Jones, dairy farmer;■ of Birdling's Flat, father of the child,, gpve evidence of identification. . .. Marie Annie Jones, the mother, said •.that -on Tuesday axteraoon she was irbriipg in the kitchen where her two were playing.; The little boy had his sister -in a push-cart .pushing 'it backwards and forwards. He stumWed against tfre fender of the stove and' a k saucepan of boiling rice fell 'over him., Witness immediately slit , his c)othes down the hack and dressed the scalds with, carron oil and put him to' bed. Dr. Traill was Bent for and he and a sister from the Little River Hospital dressed the burns. During the rtfght the child was very uneasy and Dr. Traill was called again ra the morning, when he instructed removal to the t hospital, and the dad was brought to the pity in the afternoon.-" , A verdict 'was "returned in accordance with the medical evidence;
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Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20179, 6 March 1931, Page 16
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306DEATH FROM SHOCK. Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20179, 6 March 1931, Page 16
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