CHILD'S DEATH
CIGARETTE END SWALLOWED
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
HASTINGS, March 22,
The death of- a ten-months-old Maori child as the result of swallowing a cigarette end was the subject o£ an inquest at Wairoa yesterday. Before it was taken ill on Saturday the child was crawling round the floor of its home, and it is thought possible that it picked up a butt. Unsuccessful attempts were made by the mother to get the butt out. On . Monday the child was admitted to Wairoa Hospital, where it died shortly afterwards.
The verdict at the inquest was that death was due to pneumonia brought about by swallowing a cigarette end.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 69, 23 March 1938, Page 20
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108CHILD'S DEATH Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 69, 23 March 1938, Page 20
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