BABY BITTEN
APPARENTLY BY RAT. SCREAMS AWAKEN MOTHER. (Special to “Northern Advocate.”) AUCKLAND,' Wednesday. Awakened by the screams of her 10-months-old son. at three o’clock this morning, Mrs Olsen, of Pratt Street, was horrified to find blood streaming down his face. The child was pacified and taken into bed with his parents, but three hours .later it again aroused them, and this time blood was running from his hand. The sleeping infant had apparentlybeen attacked twice by a rat. Cases of rats biting sleeping people, usually children, have occasionally been reported, and a circle of scratches on the face of Mrs Olsen’s child and more on the first finger of its left hand are obvious evidence of the attack in this case. The infant was sleeping in its pram, and it is thought that the rat was attracted at first by crumbs of bread. There were two other young children, aged three and four, in the house, but neither of them was troubled. Although the child’s wounds bled profusely, and its face and finger were swollen, it showed no other ill-effects.
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Northern Advocate, 20 April 1933, Page 7
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