DEATH FROM BLEEDING.

Clutha Leader, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 20, 12 September 1911, Page 1

DEATH FROM BLEEDING.

The death of Claude White, aged 4, whose parentis live at Bocae (Vic), has been reported to the coroner. Some days ago deceased was playinjj; at his parents' residence and not a cut on the hand with a jam tin. Profuse bleeding ensued, and though medical aid was summoned the bleeding could not 1» stopped. On the advice of a doctor the child was taken to the children's hospital, but death took place, the direct cause being hiss of blood. The doctor who attended deceased stated that the child appeared to belong to the class known in medical science as ••bleeders," from the' fact that they were |wH'uliarly susceptible to death from blcpdiiiß on receiving an injury.