DEATH FROM SCALDING.
An inquest concerning the death of Leslie Masters Ball, aged one year and eight mouths, who died last Friday in the Wellington Hospital, where he had been, admitted the previous day suffering from scalds, was Held to-day before Mr. W. G. Kiddell, S.M., Coroner. The evidence showed that at 9.45 a.m. last Thursday the child's mother, who resideß in Palmer street, heard a scream from the pantry, and found that the infant had upset a billy of scalded milk over its neck and. chest. The milk, which had been taken off the stove a quarter of an hour before, had been left standing on a copper, about one foot from the edge. The Coroner returned a verdict in accordance with medical evidence, that the child died of heart failure, following burim accidentally fceived.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 31, 7 February 1927, Page 10
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136DEATH FROM SCALDING. Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 31, 7 February 1927, Page 10
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