DEATH OF AN INFANT.
On Tuesday afternoon the infant child of Mr and Mrs Me Kegney died suddenly at Moutoa. An inquesi touching the death was held this morning before Alf. Fraser Esq., District Coroner, when the following evidence was taken. Arthur McKegney, father of the deceased child, said that the child had seemed well and healthy ,for some months, but on Tuesday was not at all well and Mrs McKegney had been nursing it all day. At about a quarter to three witness took the.child from its mother to hold, because he thought it was going to have a fit. The child died in his arms about a quarter of an hour afterwards. Did not send for the doctor as he thought the child was only suffering from a cold. Mrs McKegney corroborated her hnsband’s evidence, and stated that the child had been fed on condensed milk. Dr Adams stated that acting under instructions from the Coroner be had made a post mortem examination, from which he was of opinion that death resulted from heart failure through congestion of the lungs. The Coroner returned a” verdict in accordance with the medical evidence.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 472, 26 August 1909, Page 3
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193DEATH OF AN INFANT. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 472, 26 August 1909, Page 3
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