CHILD SMOTHERED
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, sth May.
The practice of mothers taking their babies to bed with them was adversely commented upon by Mr. Hunt, Coroner, at an inquest concerning the death of a baby girl found dead in bed beside her mother.
"It is a bad practice, and is practically condmened now," the "Coroner said. "It is a long time since we had a case of this kind. Mothers should not take their babies to bed with them."
The mother stated that when she went to sleep the baby was resting on her arm. During the night it slipped off, and she found the child dead in the morning. A verdict of death through suffocation was returned.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 107, 6 May 1926, Page 5
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