BABIES IN BED
■PresB AssociatioiT.)
Should Not Sleep With Parents WELLINGTON CASE
(By Telegraph—
WELLINGTON, This Day. That children should not be taken into bed with parents or a nurse; that they should have separate accocnmodation, and that there should be an individual cot for each child, was emphasised by the Coroner, Mr. Gilbertson, when he returned a verdict to-day that a three-months-old baby Alan Eoy Miller, was accidentally aspkyxiated on August 22 by being overlain when in bed with his parents. The evidence of the father was that the baby was taken from the cot into bed where it was breast-fed by the mother. He said that he dropped-off* to sleep and, when he wakened, he found the child lying in the same position as when it was being fed, but it was dead, lt was mentioned by a doctor that there was provision in the Child Act of Groat Britain for investigation of these cases. The coroner: Are there any penalties under the Aet? The doctor: Yes, if tnere is evidence of neglect, as in the case of aleoholism.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 189, 27 August 1937, Page 5
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