SINGULAR FATALITY.
CAUSTIC SODA SWALLOWED.
Tly Telegraph.-Press Association.)
TEHAB.U, Saturday
A two-year-old boy named Smith whose parentn were victims of the influenza epidemic, and who was living with I'm aunt at Geraldine, swallowed caustic soda, winch his aunt had (been mine while her hack was turned. Medial attendance was obtained, and the child was ibronjrht to the hospital, where he died in the evening from shock and a burned throat.
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Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 201, 23 August 1920, Page 7
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