DEATH OF INFANT.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20905, 12 July 1933, Page 6

DEATH OF INFANT.

VERDICT AT ■ INQUEST. A verdict that death was doe asphyxia resulting from haemorrlUieJf/ on the surface of the brain was Hhw turned at the conclusion of the la>M quest yesterday into the death of ttftjlr infant son of Mr and Mrs FrederJdfcff| Charles Rogers, of Woodhatn remM who died in a nursing home on Jww 11. The Coroner (Mr H. A. ¥«Wf|t| added that all due care and SkQl wtt used by those at the maternity WSP'llj and others connected with the birth mm the. child. J&m Laura Edith Howson, regiat««tt||| mid-wife, carrying on a niatefttjty|§| home at 56 Carlton Mill road sister, said that the child waa born H June 9 at 9.35 a.m. and weighed mm pounds. The child died in a cot Vnm side witness's bed early on the nWt**|| ing of June 11. < Wm Dr. A. B. Pearson, pathologist «t Wfs| Christchurch Hospital, who cwQEfMlm a post-mortem examination, fjsjl||l| that in his opinion the cause of QMBeH was asphyxia resulting from bMBPS rhage on the surface of the bMU|« Extravasation of blood in the *%Jg| was associated with pressure ott JJBgJB skull and head generally during "Sol through natural causes. This OOCttrmsS even where all proper skill was *Bfsl§ cised, and was more common in wQNw cult births. He did not think tbttOTJi amount of care and examination WjP"=|! have disclosed the condition. JPlff child was well developed and hetflWjsf in all other respedts. r *^f|