DANGER FROM A KETTLE.
, Small children should not he allowed do go too near a kettle of boiling water. Cases have occured where the child has seized the kettle and drunk from the spout.'
Suffocation quickly follows from conp?stion of the lining membrane of the throat and gullet, the result of the scald, and breathing may stop. In these cases wring a piece of cloth out of the boiling water and apply it to the throat, taking care that it is not hot enough to scald the skin.
Give the child dessertspoonful doses of olive oil, and, if you have it-, pieces of ice to suck or sips of very cold water. If the breathing stops you will have to perforin artificial respiration. Send/for the doctor at once, and don't forget to toll him exactly what has happened so that lie may coino prepared.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20868, 9 May 1931, Page 7 (Supplement)
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144DANGER FROM A KETTLE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20868, 9 May 1931, Page 7 (Supplement)
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