FAMILY POISONED.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17101, 5 March 1919, Page 8

FAMILY POISONED.

• THREE CHILDREN DEAD. Distressing circumstances surround the deaths of three young children recently in Melbourne. The 'mother of the children, Mrs. .Sarah-McDloskey, a widow, residing in Malin Street, Row, said that two of the v«tims-~Frank Joseph and Daniel—were twins. She called in a doctor to attend Frank'. The child died next morning, and a certificate was given : that death was due to enteritis and convulsions. At 11 o'clock tho same night the doctor was called to attend Dauel, who was showing much the ; same symptoms as his brother had shown. The doctor stayed with the little chap till 3 a.m., when he was much better, and then ordered his removal to the hospital. The mother took the boy there at 7 a.m., together with his sister Alico, about 5 years of. age, who also showed symptoms of illness. The mother was informed that the children were suffering from influenza. Mrs. McCloskey returned home and wont to the funeral of her child Prank, but when she arrived back again she received the sad news that Daniel had died in tho hospital. Subsequently another message was sent, announcing the death also of the girl, Alice. The doctor informed the mother that all the Children, were suffering '. from ptomaine poisoning, but she was at a loss to account for that.' *