ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES
INFANT FATALLY SCALDED. By TeJtgrayfc.—•Pr«M Association. ■ f'Ws'tiiiiircfF;'■Jififit JS-ight. ' The ti-u uionlhs' old female child of J. M. Hw.'ili died last night from the results of a scalding. Yestcrdav morning whilsl (he child was sitting "in front of a fire, if, fell off a chair, ana in doing so touched the handle of :i pot of boilinjr H-ator, some of which was spilled onfee infant. Mrs. Heath, who is be a certificated nurse r rom a Londcn ■faital, attended to the little sufferer, K its condition becoming worse, intKnl aid was called in hetween mnfland ten o'clock last night. AH etTortJ> relieve the child were un-sikl'l-isfulHnd it succumbed. At the inkiest, tHCoroner returned a verdict of ai'cidenM death from scalding. The evidence Biwed that owing to a pin becoming Wise in the front of the chair, the child fell out.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 6, 1 July 1911, Page 4
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142ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 6, 1 July 1911, Page 4
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