BOY’S EARS CUT
A WELSH “CURE FOR RICKETS.”
CORONER’S REPRIMAND.
LONDON, May 3
' How the interior of* a child’s ears was cut with a razor a s a cure for rickets, in accordance with an old Welsh rural custom, was described at an inquest at Llanelly, Carmarthenshire, oil Philip Douglas Warboy, aged five months, son of a miner. The child’s mother said that a s she believed the boy bad rickets she took him for the operatliion, but did not remain in the room while it was performed. When she returned the child was bleeding irom the ears and crying. Five days later ho was found dead in his cot.
Mrs Catherine Ann Rosser, who said she performed the operation, add . d that she had carried out this practice “too many times for me to remember.”
The Coroner: I want you to understand that this cutting of ears business must stop. You might have been faced co-day by a very serious position. A vefuict that the child died from ‘Tart failure following inuflenza was recorded.
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 May 1933, Page 3
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