BABY’S DEATH
KILLED BY ORANGE PIP. While staying with his grandmother at Lewisham, Frank James Bates, aged nine months, of Walnut Tree Road, Greenwich, was given a piece of orange. He was heard making curious noises in his throat, and died soon afterward. At the inquest a doctor, said that an orange pip had become embedded in the throaj. of the child and had caused death from shock. Recording a verdict of accidental death, the coroner said it was better to give Jafl'a oranges to children as they had no pips.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 July 1940, Page 3
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