BABY OVERLAIN
CORONER’S COMMENT. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Aug. 27. That children should not bo taken into bed with their parents or nurse, that they should have separate accommodation, and that there should be an individual cot for each child was emphasised by the Coroner (Air Gilbertson), when he returned a verdict to-day that a three-months-old child, Alan Roy Aliller, was accidentally asphyxiated by being overlain when in bed with his parents. The evidence of the father was that the baby was taken from its cot into its parents’ bed, where it was breastfed by its mother. He said he dropped off to sleep and when he wakened lie found the child lying in the same position as when it was being led, hut it was dead. It was mentioned by a doctor that there was provision in the Child AVelfare Act of Great Britain for an investigation of these cases. The Coroner: Are there any penalties under the Act?—Yes; if there is evidence of neglect, as in the case of alcoholism.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 229, 27 August 1937, Page 4
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172BABY OVERLAIN Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 229, 27 August 1937, Page 4
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