META TABLETS
CORONER'S WARNING
(Per United Press Association.]
HAAVERA, February 24
Mr Barton, S.M., gave bis verdict yesterday on the death of an infant, Ailsa Brejnner, at Waverley, on January 16. Its substance was; “Death was due to natural causes, the predisposing factors being digestive trouble and teething. On these conditions there supervened a disturbance created by eating a meta tablet and the necessary treatment after ” The coroner was satisfied that death was not caused by the tablet in the present case. “ The tablets,” lie said, “contain poison—metaklehyde—easily fatal in its effects on children who swallow them. These tablets and similar compounds should bo sold only in containers with _ a printed statement of their toxic ingredients, and the household antidote to such poisons.”
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Evening Star, Issue 19799, 24 February 1928, Page 5
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123META TABLETS Evening Star, Issue 19799, 24 February 1928, Page 5
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