Death of Two Infants.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 98, 27 December 1913, Page 5

Death of Two Infants.

FIRE AND SUFFOCATION.

GORDON ROAD FATALITY. 1 A child named Jacobs was severely burned at its parents’ home, Gordon Road, yesterday, and subsequently succumbed to the injuries received.

It appeal's that the parents went out to do the milking, leaving the child

inside. Sr earns were heard, and rushing to the house the child’s clothes were found to be in flames. Everything possible was done for the little sufferer, but all without avail.

Official enquiries are being made and evidence will be submitted at an inquest to he held at 10 o’clock tomorrow morning, before Acting-Coro-ner C. D. Sole.

INQUEST AT STRATHMORE. At Strathmore to-day an inquest was held before Acting Coroner C. 1). Sole concerning the death of Mary •Martha Coleman, aged seven months, who died suddenly yesterday. The evidence of the child’s mother was to the effect that she fed the child and laid it down on its back and went to ring up the Stratford Hospital for news of the progress of her litle girl who was an inmate. She dressed herself before going back to the baby. When she saw the state of the child she called the neighbors in, but nothing could be done for the child. Hr. Stevens, who conducted a post mortem examination, found that the child had died through asphyxia, the food it had received having been vomited and caused death. The Coroner returned a verdict in accordance with the medical testimony.