A SAD FATALITY.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 March 1917, Page 7

A SAD FATALITY.

YOUNG CHILD SCALDED. A sad accident- occurred on Sunday at Morley street, as the outcome of which a child named Harvey Henry Norman Bullot, aged one year and eleven months, the infant son of Mr. and Mrs Norman Charles Bullot, died the following evening at the New Plymouth hospital. It appears that at about 2 p.m. the father, who |is a tram conductor, was preparing to have a bath, and had carried one bucket of hot water from flic copper, a distance of about 30 feet, and placed it in the bath. He then went for another bucket of water, and when within a few feet of the bathroom hoard the child cry out. He found that the child was in the batb, and at once applied oil and sent for a doctor. Dr. McClelland, who came immediately, at once took the little fellow to the hospital, but despite the best of medical attention, he died at about a quarter to six p.m. on Mon- ■ day.

An inquest was held yesterday afternoon at the court house, before Mr. A. Crooke, S.M., coroner. Evidence was «iven by the father as outlined. Dr. E A. Walker, medical superintendent of the hospital, also gave evidence, stating that the child was suffering severely from shock, and that a large area of the body and limbs was irivolved by the accident. The cause of death was heart failure, following grave shock and convulsions, the outcome of extensive scalding by hot water. 'Die coroner returned a verdict that death was due to the child accidentally falling into a bath of hot water and sustaining injuries, in accordance with the medipal evidence.