CHILD’S DEATH AT PA
CORONER’S COMMENT PARENTS’ FAILURE TO CALL DOCTOR (New Zealand Press Association) TAURANGA, December . 22. “In my opinion the child’s illness would not have resulted in death had it received medical or Plunket treatment. The calling in of such aid is definitely against the religious beliefs of the parents. This fanatical view appears to' be firmly and sincerely held by practically all the members of the tribe to which the parents belong,” said the Coroner (Mr Hylton) after an inquest at the Waimapu Maori Pa into the death of a female child, Puatohinimaru Williams, aged about four and a half months. A verdict that the child, being in an undernourished condition, died of asphyxia while in a bout of whooping cough, was returned The mother. Ngahaka Williams, said that three of her six children had died in infancy. While she did not think that the child was sufficiently ill to require the services of a doctor, in any ease she would not have obtained one. She did not believe in them.
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25994, 23 December 1949, Page 8
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