POISONED BY MATCHES.
Per Press 'Association. „ Christchuroh, last night. Margaret Ellen Mackie, twenty months v > old, died at the hospital to-day a 3 the resuit o£ eating match heads. On Monday 2- .-afternoon the ehild had eaten the heads ; % £f one or'two matches and yesterday she had consumed another match t * head;-but no ill-effects resulted. Yesterday jfj!? morning the child’s father discovered on fr. floor of one of the rooms of the house of matches with tbeir heads shewed off. The child wa3 given some warm salt and water, which esusod • v"' vomiting, but she took ill again later in i the day. A doctor was called and ordered 4ho removal of the ohiia to the hospital, whore she was treated for phosphorous . foieoning, < . ...
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Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1451, 11 May 1905, Page 3
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