CHILD ASPHYXIATED
Warning To Mothers Press Association—Copyright Auckland, May 31. “This case should be a warning to mothers and all who have charge of infant children,” said the Coroner, Mr F. K. Hunt, in finding at an im. quest to-day that the infant son of Mrs Mary Elizabeth O'Brien, ißemuera, died from as.phyxibti.on caused ■by the inhalation of milk into the lungs.
The evidence showed that last Friday week about 1.30 p.m. Ithe mother while doing household duties left the child in its cot with its head on a pillow and the teat of a feeding bottle in its mouth. On her return threequarters of an hour later she was alarmed by the appearance of the child and called a doctor, who found death had occurred.
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 447, 1 June 1937, Page 6
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126CHILD ASPHYXIATED Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 447, 1 June 1937, Page 6
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