MAORI CHILD'S DEATH
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
GISBOENE, This Day. The Coroner held an inquest on the death of a Maori child, aged three, who caught a severe cold. She was brought by the parents from the country to a herbalist, who -prescribed two bottles of cough mixture. Tho medicine proved ineffective.
Claude Edwin Bolton, a retired schoolmaster, who carried on business as a herbalist, said that the parents brought the child to him on Monday. It was suffering from a bad cough and was very weak. Witness prescribed a mixture of paregoric, peppermint, and linseed oil, and honey, and also fluid methylated spirit and water, coloured with burnt sugar, to open up the pores. He never pressed for payment, but if the Maoris liked to give him anything ho allowed them. , Witness said that he had studied medicine about sixty years ago, and had been prescribing medicine for the Maoris since 1868.
Dr. Eice stated that the post-mortem revealed that the child's general condition was poor. There were signs of pleurisy for several days' duration. The medicine given would have had a slight effect.
The Coroner returned a verdict that the child died of bronchitis and pneumonia following on pleurisy.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 139, 16 June 1927, Page 12
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