KEROSENE POISONING
INQUEST ON YOUNG CHILD [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION*] MASTERTON,- Saturday Evidence that drinking kerosene might cause death very quickly in the case of young people was given by Dr. Archer Hosking at an inquest into the death of Mervyn John Flutey, aged 14 months, who diod in the Masterton Hospital an hour after admission on last Saturday from shock duo to kerosene poisoning. Deceased was a son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Flutey, of Pukio, Featherston. ' It was stated that the child accidentally drank some kerosene at home during his mother's temporary absence y in anptjier part of the house. v A verdict-; of deathfrora misadventure I; *vas returned. ■>. /.» » " 1
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23200, 21 November 1938, Page 14
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