HIS “QUEER COLOUR.” A child's death in’a train while returning from a holiday at Blackpool was'described at an inquest on Ronal Whiteley, the 18-months old son off George Whiteley a coal dealer of Halifax. Mrs Whiteley, the child’s mother fax. Mrs Whiteley, the child’s mother, said the hoy seemed all right while on holiday at Blackpool During the trr journey home he slept, and she noticed nothing wrong until they reached Halifax station, when! he seemed to he “a very queer colour.” He was dead before a doctor could be called. , A doctor stated that a post-mortem revealed an idio-pathic puerpueric state of the blood, without any apparent basic cause, ; This state sometimes arose when there was a beginning of scarlet fever. He did not .think the change of food on holiday would have had any effect. A verdit in accordance with tliis evidence was entered.
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Hokitika Guardian, 31 October 1929, Page 8
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