SUFFOCATION OF BABY.
SLEEPING WITH MOTHER. COMMENT BY THE CORONER. The practice of mothers taking babies to bed with them was adversely commented upon by Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., coroner, at an inquest yesterday concerning the deitth of a baby girl, aged one month, who had been found dead in bed beside her mother.
"It is a bad practices and is practically condemned now," the. coroner said. "It is a long time since we have had a case of tliis kind. Mothers should not take babies to bed with them."
The mother stated that when she went to sleep the baby was resting on her arm. During the night, it slipped off and she found the child dead in tho morning. A verdict of death caused through accidental suffocation was returned.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19320, 6 May 1926, Page 12
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