CHILD ASPHYXIATED.
—* — I MILK INHALED INTO LUNGS. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, May 31. “This case should be a warning to mothers and all who have charge of infant children," said the coroner, Mr F. K. Hunt, in finding at an inquest to-day that the infant son of Mrs Mary Elizabeth O’Brien, of Remuera, died from aphyxiation caused by. inhalation of milk into the lungs. The evidence showed that last I' ridav week, about 1.30, the mother, while doing household duties, left the child in a cot with its head on the pillow and the teat of a feeding bottle in its mouth. On returning three-quarters of an hour later she was alarmed by the appearance of the child arid called a doctor, who found that death had occurred.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 154, 1 June 1937, Page 2
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