DEATH OF CHILD FROM SEPTICAEMIA.

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3998, 17 September 1929, Page 2

DEATH OF CHILD FROM SEPTICAEMIA.

The death of the little girl Nga■tiviti Winiata, aged one year and ten months, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Winiata, of Foxton Road, was the subject of an inquest by Mr. T. Brown, Coroner, at Levin, on Saturday. The father, in his evidence, stated that the child had been healthy, and on Friday afternoon, she was with him when he was working in the orchard. He brought her into the house about four 'o’clock, gave her something to eat, and then put her to bod, when she appeared to he in quite good health. About nine o’clock she became sick, and half an hour later he noticed that she was feverish. About 4 a.m. lie could sec that she was seriously ill. He tried to get a message through to the? doctor by his own telephone, hut found the line out of order. He sent one of his hoys to a .neighbour’s to ring for Dr. Thompson. The child died shortly before the doctor’s arrival.

Rangiuraki Winiata, mother of the child, corroborated her husband’s evidence.

Dr. Thompson stated that the child was well nourished and showed no sign of neglect. He had examined the body thoroughly, and from his observations and the evidence of the parents he was of opinion that the child had died from sevjere septicaemia, probably accompanied by meningitis. Jf he had been called when the child was first taken ill, he did not think that the child’s death could have been avoided.

A verdict was returned in accor dance with the medical evidence.