A CHILD’S DEATH.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 163, 27 June 1911, Page 11

A CHILD’S DEATH.

; INQUEST AT NAPIER. The evidence given at the in- ! quest of the infant child of Frank j Ross was as follows:— j . Frank Ross deposed that the body was that of his infant daughter. aged eight months. The child died at 4.55 last evening. For a few hours previously the baby was fidgety, and then became seriously ill for about a quarter of an hour and died. The child had a slight j cough and medicine had been given to her for about a week. I This was administered for a couple ’ of days at intervals of two or three i hours. When buying the medicine witness told the chemist that the ‘ bady was restless and wanted 'continually to go to sleep. No docj tor had been called in until last night when all he could do was to declare life extinct. A quarter of > an hour before dying the baby sudj denly became very quiet as if she . wanted to go to sleep. The child had always been very healthy. r Dr. T. C. Moore deposed that he I had made a post mortem examination bf the body. £ast night he iwas called in to attend the child, and to-day held a post mortem. found a condition which I is seldom suspected during life called status lymphaticus. In this

[ state sudden death is liable to ocicur from a very slight illness or •accident. The thymvs gland was four or five times larger than was natural for a child of its age. ■ Other glands in the chest and abdomen were found abnormally large. This disease was only called attention to during the last few years and no parent could be expected to know of its presence. The infant was well nourished and looked as as if it was well cared for. There was doubt as to how the disease kills. In this case the cause of death was heart failure, the right side of the heart being most egorged. The verdict of ‘"death from heart failure” as recorded yesterday was .-•turned.