EATS BURNING TABLET
CHILD'S DEATH [Per United Press Association.] WANGANUI, January 17. The infant child of Major Bremner, of the Defence Department, who is „ under transfer from Hawera to Christ church, died shortly after being takci off the train at Waverley yesterday On Sunday night the girl, who is seven teen and a-half months old, had eatei portion of a metal burning tablet. A doctor was called, who said there was nothing poisonus in the tablets; that the child would have abdominal pains, and to give her oil and milk. The child cried and vomited during the night, and the doctor again called in the morning. He washed out the child’s stomach, and said she would be all right for travel. On the train she developed convulsions, and died at a doctor’s room at Waverley.
The coroner (Mr Barton, S.M.) said there had been at least two similar cases in recent years involving various kinds of naphthaline tables. The children after treatment appeared to get all right, and then become suddenly ill and died. He was anxious to see whether some remedy could not be found.
The inquiry was adjourned for a week.
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Evening Star, Issue 19766, 17 January 1928, Page 6
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193EATS BURNING TABLET Evening Star, Issue 19766, 17 January 1928, Page 6
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