CHILD ASPHYXIATED IN BED
SEPARATE ACCOMMODATION URGED (PBESS ASSOCIATION TEI.EGBAM.) WELLINGTON. August 27. That children should not be taken into bed with their parents or nurses: that they should have separate accommodation: and that there should be an individual cot for each child, was emphasised by the Coroner (Mr J Gilbertson) when he returned a verdict to-day that a three months' old boy. Alan Roy Miller, was accidentally asphyxiated recently by being overlain when in bed with his parents. The evidence of the father was that the baby was taken from a cot into the .'bed, where he was breast-fed by his mother. The father 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 an investigation into these cases. The Coroner: Are there any penalties under the act? "Yes," replied the doctor, "If there is evidence of neglect, as in the case of alcoholism."
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22183, 28 August 1937, Page 10
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