VICTIM OF SCALDING
DEATH OF INFANT BOY TRAGEDY" IN BATHROOM TAP TURNED BY CHILD (Per Press Association.) DUNEDI.N. this clay. Extensive scalding from boiling water resulted in the death al. the Duneclin Hospital at 6.30 o'clock last 'vening of David Russell Ellis, an infant, aged one year and a half, whose parents reside at 17 Greenock street, Kaikorai. The mother was bathing her child in a tub of warm water about 3 o'clock in the afternoon and had gone into an adjacent .building to letch some clothes. While she was away, another of her children, aged three years and a quarter, climbed up and turned on the hot tap on the bath. At the sound of the running water the mother rushed in.
She applied ointment to the child's skin and rolled it in a blanket. The child ' reached the hospital at about 4.15 o'clock suffering from shock and burns caused by boiling water, but railed to respond lo treatmonl and died.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20012, 10 August 1939, Page 11
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162VICTIM OF SCALDING Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20012, 10 August 1939, Page 11
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