DANGEROUS BONES
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I Cause of Two Deaths
(B.v ' Telegraph
WELLINGTON, Jhis Day. That swallowing a piece of bone during m'eals is fairly common' and also that there is grave danger in this was made apparent at two inquests t.o-day on. hospital patients, one a baby, who died on August 8 of pneumonia following the lodgiug of a piece of bone in the windpipe, and the other a man of 23 who died of septic infection following the swallowing of a piece of bone. The parents' evidence in the case of the baby was that it was a complete mystery how the bone got in the child's throat. The child was given a > spoon of eustard immediately the trouble set in. The child had, howcvcr, been playing on the floor and tUev lmd u finaU dogj .
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 177, 13 August 1937, Page 5
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