SICK BOY ANOINTED
LIFE MIGHT HAVE BEEN SAVED, PECULIAR PEOPLE SECT A boy of 13 who was anointed with oil by an elder of the Peculiar People, and for whom prayers were offered in a chapel, might have been saved from death —according to a doctor’s evidence —if a few poultices had been applied. The boy, Cyril Levett, of Victoria Road, Stanford-le-Hope. Essex, died from syncope following a septic tonsil. His parents belong to the sect of Peculiar People. They do not believe in doctors “except,” so the father said at the inquest, “for those people who can get no help from the Lord.” “Grave issues are raised in this case,” said the coroner, Mr H. J. Jefferies, when he adjourned the inquest for a week so that the police might summon a jury.
The mother, Mrs Matilda Levett, said she thought the boy was suffering from quinsy. He could not swallow anything.
The coroner: Did any member of your church come to see him? —Mrs Levett: They came often, and the boy was anointed with oil.
Dr. Douglas Craig, when asked by the coroner if medical aid would have saved the boy’s life, replied: “I have a feeling that a few poultices applied to the throat would have relieved the whole condition without any other interference.”
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Northern Advocate, 27 December 1934, Page 10
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