CASUALTIES.
DEATH THROUGH SCAU& , An eleven-months-old child, AS£mS Earnshaw, was fatally scalded yasteniqr morning by upsetting a basin of l&pj water on himself. The infant, wlmj|b the son of Mr A. J. Earnshaw, laboorw, of Prebbletou, died at the CfcrisEcbaten Hospital at 2.30 p.m. . * ; At the inquest opened by-Mr JH. T. Widdowsori, Coroner,, yesterday* -,en> dence was given, by the father. He nidi lie did not actuallysee-the accKfeat occur, but lie was toid by his. wife she had left a bowl of boiling, water the table, and that the child cfcnbdl up the leg of the table and apsefc it He was scalded from tba chin to waist. The mother, bathed .the scald a oil", and sent-for medical Bd. (hi Bib arrival, Dr. Vivian,of iUccarton, onSnr» ed the child to l>e sent to the Dr. Hunt, a house surgeon at tie Hospital, said that at ceiived an urgent message to go V)iSm child. He expired almost as tha factor entered the room.
The inquest'was then adjoOTwi to +rallow Dr. Cummings, who attended tfo child on his admission, and the aafltiw to gi.ro evidence. ■ , . v*
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 18242, 28 November 1924, Page 10
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