INFANT’S DEATH.
AFTER EATING PILLS. s, Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, April 15. Taken violently ill after eating some pills that fell from a bottle which broke while he was playing with it, Trevor William John Grigg, aged 14 months, the younger child of Mr and Airs A. H. Grigg, of Wharehine, near Wellsford, died at his parents’ home on Sunday before the arrival of a doctor. His elder sister, who had also been playing with the bottle, did not eat any pills. An inquest was held by the District Coroner, and after hearing evidence he returned a verdict that the child died through swallowing a number of pills containing poison. The Coroner added a rider advising parents that in the interests of their children’s safety all medicines, including patent medicines, should lie 1 placed in a cabinet in an elevated position so that children are unable to climb and reach them. He said some medicines that would not b© poisonous to adults would cause the death of children.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 117, 16 April 1940, Page 2
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