DEATH FROM SCALDS
Auckland, Last Night
An inquest was held into the death of John Joseph Tubberty, aged 16 months, who died in Auckland Hospital last night. The Coroner in returning a verdict that the cause of death was pneumonia, following scalds accidentally received through upsetting a pot, of hot tea. The mother of the child, Mrs. Delia Tubberty, said that on the evening of September 4, a pot of tea had been put on the kitchen table. The child had been left momentarily in the room with a girl aged live. She heard a crash of something falling and a- scream from the, little girl, and it was discovered that tke child had upset (he pot of tea over himself. He was scalded on the left side of the face and body. She coated his body with caaffonate of soda and flour and in a few minutes the child was taken to hospital. **
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Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3999, 19 September 1929, Page 3
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154DEATH FROM SCALDS Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3999, 19 September 1929, Page 3
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