FALL INTO HOT WATER
CHILD DIES FROM SCALDS A verdict that death wa& due to ■toxaemia and shock following an accidental fall into a copper of hot water at her parents’ residence was returned at an inquest into the death of Daphne Mavis June Broadhurst, aged five years and nine months (says the Christchurch “Press”). Mr E. D. Mosley was coroner.
Charles F. Broadhurst, of Higlisted road, Papaimi, father of the child said that on Friday evening he put a copper of water on a fire in his back yard. When the water was nearly boiling he removed the copper. and placed it a little distance •from the (ire. The child was playing about, 'poking the fire with a stick, and when a piece of grass flared up, she stepped backwards, and fell into tlie copper. She got out of the copper herself before lie had time to assist her. 'Mrs Broadhurst applied oil to the scalds, and the child was then taken to hospital. Dr P. W. 8. Riley, a house surgeon at the Christchurch Public Hospital, said the girl was admitted to the hospital at 8.10 o’clock on Friday evening suffering from extensive scalds and shock. A blood transfusion was made on Saturday, and she rallied a little, but on Sunday evening she been me worse,, and died at 10.5. Dr Riley added that it was not usual for patients of the girl’s age to recover when I hey were scalded as she was, over more than half the body.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 19 April 1934, Page 10
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