CHILD SCALDED.
POT OF HOT TEA UPSET.
DEATH OCCURS IN HOSPITAL.
An inquest was held yesterday into the death of John Joseph Tubberty, aged 16 months, who died in the Auckland Hospital on Tuesday evening, tho coroner, Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., returning a verdict that tho cause of death was pneumonia, following scalds accidentally received through upsetting a pot of hot tea.
Tho mother of the child, Mrs. Delia Tubberty, of 99, Cook Street, said that on tho evening of September 4 a pot of freshly-made tea had been put on tho kitchen table. The child had been left momentarily in the room with a girl aged five. She had heard the crash of something falling and a scream from tho little girl, and it was discovered that the child had upset tho pot of tea over himself. He had apparently pulled the table-cloth partly off, at tho same time drawing the teapot from the table. Tho mother added that the child was scalded on the loft side of tho face and body. She coated his body with carbonate of soda and flour, and in a few minutes tho child was taken to the hospital.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20364, 19 September 1929, Page 14
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