THE DEADLY FLANNELETTE
A CHILD'S DEATH. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Carterton, March 2l ( . At an inquest on the 4%-year daughter of Mr W. J. MacAulay, of Carrington Settlement, the evidence showed that she was burned to death througn her night clothes of flannelette catching fire. The jury added a strong rider to the verdict condemning the use of flannelette, by which many lives were sacrificed, and asking the Governmeat to impose a prohibitive duty in t'iie cause of humanity. The material was denounced as' dangerous to life, inimical to health, and should be banished from every household. The evidence showed that while the parents had left the house to milk, the little girl walked up to the fire, wearing flannelette nightclothes, to get warm when her clothes caught fire and s-ae was burned from her knees' all round the body to her ear and bottom lip.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 345, 22 March 1910, Page 5
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145THE DEADLY FLANNELETTE Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 345, 22 March 1910, Page 5
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