IN BED WITH PARENTS
INFANT ASPHYXIATED CORONER’S STRICTURES (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Friday That children should not be taken into bed with their parents or a nurse, that they should have separate accommodation and that there should be an individual cot for each child was emphasised by the coroner, Mr E. Gilbertson, when he returned a verdict to-day that Alan Roy Miller (three months), was accidentally asphyxiated in August by being overlaid when in bed with his parents. The evidence of the father was that the baby was taken from the cot Into bed, where it was breast-fed by the mother. He said he dropped off to sleep and when he awakened he found the' child lying in the same position as when being fed but it was dead. It was mentioned by a doctor that there was provision in the Child Act of Great Britain for investigation of these cases. The coroner: Are there any penalties under the Act? —Yes. If there Is evidence of neglect, as in a case of alcoholism.
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20284, 28 August 1937, Page 3
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173IN BED WITH PARENTS Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20284, 28 August 1937, Page 3
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