SMALL BOY’S DEATH.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3648, 7 June 1927, Page 2

SMALL BOY’S DEATH.

PEANUT IN WINDPIPE. Wellington, June 5. Robert Hunt, aged 31, of 30 Hamilton Road, who was in the brightest of spirits on Thursday morning suddenly, turned black and commenced to choke as he left the table after the midday meal. Dr. Luke was urgently summoned but, being busy, his wife came first, The child was in a very bad way when she came. His heart was getting weaker and weaker under the terrible strain. Dr. Luke, when he arrived, fought hard to save the child’s life, but with a sob the little fellow, who was known as the “sunshine of the street,” rolled over dead. As nothing was found in the throat that could cause death, Dr. P. P. Lynch Pathologist at the Wellington Hospital conducted a post-mortem examination and stated at the inquest on Saturday that he found a little piece of peanut in the right bronchus, running off the windpipe of the lungs. In Dr. Lynch’s opinion the child died from asphyxia. A verdict was returned that Robert Hunt died on June 2 from asphyxia, caused by a foreign body accidentally finding its way into his right bronchus.