DRUG CAUSES DEATH
EFFECT ON YOUNG CHILD USUAL AMOUNT GIVEN Press Association. WELLINGTON, Tuesday. At an inquest on the death of Clarence Victor Gaskin, aged two years and seven months, at the public Hospital, evidence showed that the child was prescribed a treatment of santonine by a doctor at the hospital, and that the medicine was given him by his mother at home. . ~ . The child became drowsy, fell asleep at night, and became unconscious. He was removed to the hospital, and died about 24 hours later. The coroner’s finding was to the effect that the child died as the result of poisoning by a Prescription of santonine prescribed by the Wellington Public Hospital, the dose given being the usual one. Evidence showed that the child was peculiarly susceptible to this drug.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 309, 21 March 1928, Page 14
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131DRUG CAUSES DEATH Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 309, 21 March 1928, Page 14
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