CHILD STARVED TO DEATH
A pitiful story of starvation was revealed at an inquest lield in Leeds on Philip Paynter, aged six weeks, of Beechwood terrace, Burnley. The mother, aged twenty, said the child was very thin when born, and had not been medically attended. Since before it was bom she will ill and often went without food. The child since birth lived on condensed milk. She went from Manchester to Leeds three weeks ago without hat and boots, and owing to being shoeless could not go to hospital with her child. Dr. Bathurst said the child only weighed 131 b, and at that age should have weighed 91b. The child, he said, lived practically on water, as the condensed milk‘was diluted with five times its weight of water. It was staled that the father was out of work and nearly starving. The Coroner, commenting on the facts, said there was not sufficient evidence to justify a verdict of manslaughter. The jury returned a verdict of “Death from starvation,” but were divided on the point of wilful negligence.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8342, 31 January 1913, Page 2
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178CHILD STARVED TO DEATH New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8342, 31 January 1913, Page 2
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