A LITTLE GIRL'S DEATH.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1826, 12 August 1913, Page 5

A LITTLE GIRL'S DEATH.

WAS IT CHRISTIAN SCIENCE TREATMENT? FATHER COMMITTED FOR TRIAL By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright "Times"—Sydney "Sun" Special Cables.) (Rec. August 11, G. 30 p.m.) London, August 11. At the adjourned proceedings in con-_ nection with the Coroner's inquest on tho death of a -young girl at Stroud—a case of Christian science treatment—tho doctor, in his evidence, was unable to state that death had been accelerated by tho want of medical attention. The jury decided that a reasonable person would havo summoned a doctor and that failure to do so had hastened the girl's death. Tho Coroner stated that_ the verdict wns tantamount to manslaughter. Tho father has now been committed for trial, on bail. At tho opening of the inquest a doctor gave evidence that the case was one of diphtheria, and that if it had been' treated by modern methods it would probably havo recovered. Tho father of the child gave evidenoe that illness was a falso belief. The child had appeared to bo suffering. from mumps, and he had telephoned to a Christian scientist, who bestowed distant treatment, and there was immediate improvement. The scientist thereupon telephoned to cease, the treatment. Tho child became worse, and died.