CHEWING GUM VICTIM
CORONER ISSUES WARNING O.C. AUCKLAND, This Day. A rider that parents and teachers should warn children of the danger of playing games requiring violent exertion while holding anything in the mouth was added to the verdict of accidental death returned at the inquest, held by Mr. S. L. Paterson, S.M., Coroner, into the death of Patrick Joseph Dillon, aged 11, the son of Mr. S. M. Dillon, of Tristram Street, Hamilton. Evidence was given that while the deceased was playing a game at St. Columbia's Convent School, Frankton, on November 26, a piece of chewing gum obstructed the windpipe and caused' asphyxiation.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 136, 6 December 1943, Page 3
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105CHEWING GUM VICTIM Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 136, 6 December 1943, Page 3
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