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WELLINGTON, Last Night. A finding that Victor John MeKavanagh, aged 18 months, died in the Wellington Hospital on June 1 from septic poisoning following on extensive scalds he received four days earlier was returned by the coroner at the conclusion of the inqnest to-day. Evidenee was given by the child 's mother that the boy knocked the con- ^ tents of a hot Water electric jug over' liimself, receiving scalds on the face and body. The injuries later turned septic, and on medical advice the child was admitted to the hospital, where he subsequently died. The coroner observed that the treatment given by the medical men appeared to have been correct, and as far as admission to the public hospital was concerned that Was npparently the right course to pursue.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 119, 5 June 1937, Page 5
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140WOUNDS TURN SEPTIC Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 119, 5 June 1937, Page 5
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