AN INFANT'S DEATH.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 671, 23 November 1909, Page 3

AN INFANT'S DEATH.

.\-;x? DANGERS OF FLANNELETTE. . V. The facts elicited at the' hospital at.' the inquest concerning; the death < of Albert Roy Petrie, the two-year-old son •of Albert Ernest Petrio, once more says, (says •-: the , Auckland' "Star?) '■ ' showed,' the.' , danger ■ ;of. using ' flcnhelettefoi night garments. .According "to the st'qrjr...'.told by .the,father, who .is a bootmaker, trading in Dominion Road under the name of 'Masters.', the .children were.put, to : ;bed, and a, candle-was left burning in the rodht..Twenty' minutes later,.the -mother went up to :the' bedroom- for/a pair'.'of. scissors:.and found the little'". girl, .four ..years /old, .fast asleep, but the boy was still.awake. /.About3five minutes afterwards the child was heard to scream out, and /'when: the parents/ rushed ; into 'the/ room 'they'.' found the little fellow put; of-bed, with his./flannelette> nightgown on, fire,' it .evidently having .caught from tho tcandle.,.: The child was at;once takenitoVa doctor's heat' by,.and ;then> to ;the hospital: Dr. ' Thomson, . house surgeon at' the institution, said there-was' practically, no hope when the. child, was:• admitted, -and; it died ','next morning : from shock.-/ --;. : ".";-;':' '■'-■',"'-'■ ;/"/':/,"' : -// ':.'•; '.■'.'''.: ~■

;The coroner (Mr; T. Qresham), referring to leaving. 'n',;lighted';candle;in , the vroom,.with; rjKildreii,. said it: was a bad practice-to ; begin, as .'■■ the child ' would. always' look f or. a .'light,' and, as ( tbe. present case shmved there was a grave: danger. : >:\\i\- ; ;,' '.■■":.''•','■. :'..'■'," ; -■{ ■: ;'Orie of;the, jurymen said: he ; knew, of'a case .where -a child ,had been' accustomed .'■ to : this bad practice, and though he.was now eleven •years old he would. not go ;to: sleep • without' a 'light.' ;.;;•:: ;'..'•:.,' >'.•':,.: •:■;■,'';;;... <■■>■ 1 The': coroner - also ;called ■■ attention ;.'to the danger of flannelette,' and:'said-a new sort had been- introduced iat Home which. :was;. inflammable,, arid was branded Jtc thit';eiTect-.;'.<He believed ;it Jibrl riot, come to'the-.colnniesi'yet, bht''when : it;did it was,to..be.hoped "that; it would - be -nsed • instead: of , the .present 'dangerous;,article.':■■,.;''.'■'•:■';' '■' .•■,'.•'■.■'■ V•;;:> 7r : -- : . ; 'The'.'.jirry- found 'thit : death.-was.-.accidentally caUsedi :rib;blanie ; being 'attachable, to anyone..