AN INFANT ACCIDENTALLY POISONED.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 8814, 1 March 1892, Page 5

AN INFANT ACCIDENTALLY POISONED.

[JIVT TELKGKAI'H, —PKKSS ASSOCIATION.I Dcnkdin, Monday. At an inquest touching the circumstances connected with the death of Kda Webb, a child of one year and eleven months, who died from tho effects of poison, the evidence of the father was to the effect that he had put some rough on rats" on pieces of bread for rats. Ho left the bread and poison in the kitchen close to where his wife was washing, and he took some of the bread to a neighbour. His wife had gone out to hang up clothes, and when he came back in five minutes ho found the bread had been touched, but concluded it had been disturbed by a dog. To make sure, however an emetic was given to the child. The child was in a front room when the poison was loft in tho kitchen. It appeared that tho hospital house surgeon, after treating the child "and believing urgency was over, told the mother to take it home, the reason being that there was a regulation that only children over two years should be admitted, except in a case of urgency. The jury returned a vordict of accidental poisoning, and added a rider that the regulation excluding children under two years should be abolished.