INFANT SUFFOCATED.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 156, 30 June 1914, Page 7

INFANT SUFFOCATED.

DANGERS OP BABY SOOTHERS.

'% [BT TELIGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.] §.* Wellington, Monday.

I'i-.'A bast named E&e Sherwood, threo |: months old, was suffocated through swallowing a soother whilo lying in bed. W At tie inquest the mother of the child H elated that the soother stuck in the child's |s windpipe. She endeavoured to extract it, but, failing to do go, telephoned for 'Dr. Gibta, who found the child suffocated. I ; ) 'M<s&snres to restore respiration were un-

'.;. .e&xesrfnl. Had a piece of string or K'fcpe been attached to the soother, the fv.accident could not have ..ccurred, neither ccoald it have occurred had a larger -on© |3?.oeen used. The mother stated further flat she had taken a dirty tape off the H soother, intending to replace it with a W. dean one After dressing. f The doctor stated that if the child' had f_. fcetn taken by the lege and held down-

I wards the obstruction might have come X away. In trying to dislodge it with her £ lingers, the mother had caused it to be- ; come mere firmly fixed in the baby's v; tfcroat.

i:- . The coroner returned a verdict that g Jfcitb wa-s caused by suffocation, adding [i~ thai the parents did all that was possible I aider distressing circumstances.