Minister rebukes doctor
NZPA-PA London There was no evidence that smothering caused most cot-deaths, the British Social Services Secretary, Mr Norman Fowler, said yesterday. “I deplore any unsubstantiated allegations which might give rise to this impression,” Mr Fowler said in a written reply in the House of Commons. This was seen as a rebuke to a Home Office pathologist, Dr Donald Wayte, who told an inquest last week that most of Britain’s 1000 annual cot-deaths. were probably caused by smothering. Mr Fowler added that he expected to receive a report on postneonatal mortality, co-ordinated by the Medical Care Research Unit at Sheffield University at the end of the month.
Its finding would be published and would be carefully considered. Mr . Fowler i said in the reply that studies had pointed to “a variety of factors that may be associated with such deaths, but suggest that there is no single cause.”
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