POISON PILLS

Greymouth Evening Star, 16 April 1940, Page 5

POISON PILLS

EATEN BY BABY.

[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION,] AUCKLAND, April 15. Taken violently ill after eating some pills that fell from a. bottle which broke while he was playing with it, Trevor William John Grigg, I aged 14 months, the younger child of Mr A. H. Grigg, of Wharehine, near Wellsford, died -at his parents’ home, on Sunday , after the' arrival of a | doctor. His elder sister, who had* also been playing with the bottle, did not eat any pills. An inquest was held hy the District 'Ccrener, After hearing evidence, he returned a vetdlct that the child died | through swallowing a number of pills I containing poison. _ _ i "The coroner added a rider advising! parents that, in the interests of their children’s safety, all medicines, in-; eluding patent medicines, should be, placed in a cabinet in an elevated ■ position so that children would be nn- j able to climb up and reach them. He* said some medicines that "would not be; poisonous to adults, would cause the i death of children. ; j