CHILD ASPHYXIATED
IN BED WITH PARENTS CORONER'S RECOMMENDATIONS [BY TELEGRAPH—PHE9S ASSOCIATION - ] WELLINGTON, Friday That children should not be taken into bed with their parents or a nurse, that they should have separate accommodation, and that there should bo an individual cot for each child, was emphasised by the coroner, Mr. E. Gilbertson, when he returned a verdict to-day that a three-months-old child, Alan Roy Miller, was accidentally asphyxiated by being overlain when in bed with his parents. The evidence was that the baby was taken into bed, where it was fed by its; mother. The father said he dropped oft' to sleep and when he awakened he found the child lying in the same position as when it was being fed, but it was dead.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22819, 28 August 1937, Page 16
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