CHILD DROWNED.
FATHER’S ALLEGATION,
Per Press Association. WELLINGTON. Feb. 14. The allegation that two doctors bad declined to come when he called them was made at an inquest at Lower Hutt, to-day, by the father of Beverley Irene Allison, aged 2 years S months, whose body was found in the Waiwetu Stream on Friday afternoon. The Coroner (Mr E. Gilbertson) said the case was one where a knowledge of resuscitation was most important. He was of opinion that the life of the child could have been saved if someone with a full knowledge of life-saving methods had been present. The father of the child asked the Coroner if it were not compulsory for medical men, if they were at their surgeries, to attend cases when called. He had called two doctors who had refused to come, lienee the late arrival of another doctor. The Coroner said there was no compulsion, but lie supposed tho doctors in question had engagements. The finding was that tho child was accidentally drowned on February 10 by falling into the Waiwetu Stream.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 67, 16 February 1939, Page 2
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