CHILD'S DEATH BY SCALDING.
(By Telctrraph—Press Association.) Christchurch, June 30. The ten-months-old female child of J. M. Heath died last night from tho results of scalding yesterday morning, whilst the child was sitting in front of a fire, it fell off a chair and in doing so touched tho handle of a pot of boiling water, some- of which was spilled on the infant. Mrs. Heath, who is stated to bo a certificated nurse from a London hospital, attended to the little sufferer, but its condition becoming worse, medical aid was called in between nine and ten o clock last night. All efforts to relieve the child were unsuccessful, and it succumbed. At the inquest the Coroner returned a verdict of accidental death from scalding. Tho evidence showed that .owing to a pin becoming loose in tho front ot the chair, the child fell out.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1168, 1 July 1911, Page 6
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145CHILD'S DEATH BY SCALDING. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1168, 1 July 1911, Page 6
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