ACCIDENTAL DEATH.
CHILD'S FALL FROM TABLE A verdict of accidental death was returned by the coroner, Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., at an inquest yesterday into the death on September 30 of Margaret Eileen ITall, aged 10 months, the daughter of Mr. and Arts. W. Hall, of 95, Union Street, Freeman's Bay. Evidence was given that the child had overbalanced and fallen from a table. Norman Patrick O'Brien, house surgeon at the Auckland Hospital, said the child was admitted to the institution on June 25. She was discharged on September and readmitted 16 days later. Death was due to an abscess on the brain and meningitis consequent upon head injuries. The coroner returned a verdict in accordance with the evidence..
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20993, 2 October 1931, Page 12
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