A Post Mortem Necessary.
Gisboske, January 81. An inquest waa bold to-tiny into tho circumstances attending tlio death of a Native child, eight months old. Three Natives, the mother and relations of the deceased, deposed that it was Kulloiin/;, as thoy thought, from dysenteiy, and yesterday morning took it to Ml' Puluior, a herbalist, who gave it three doses of mediciue in an hour. Shortly afterwards the jhild luoked very bud, and they took it to Dr Innee, where the infant died in a quarter of an hour. Dr Innes deposed that the child was well nourished, with no signs of dysentery, and the brain waß well nourished, The post mortem revealed no cause of death, and heeonld assign no causo of death but narcotic poisoning. The death (seemed to him like poisoning from opium. Dr Poll gavo similar evidence, both medical men considering it necessary to hold an analysis of tlin stomach, Palmer made a statement that he gave the child essence of aniseed diluted, and also tincture of cloves and cinnamon, but nothing poisonous. Tlio inquest was adjourned for an analysis of the stomach,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3424, 1 February 1890, Page 2
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186A Post Mortem Necessary. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3424, 1 February 1890, Page 2
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