DEATH OF NATIVE CHILD

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12507, 24 July 1926, Page 10

DEATH OF NATIVE CHILD

IMPROPER TREATMENT BELIEVED IN FAITH-HEALING. Per Press Association. TAUMARUNUi, July 23. At an adjourned inquest regarding the death of a Alaori female child at Ivaitepeka, the coroner returned a verdict that death was due to pulmonary affection, probably accelerated by improi>cr food and lack of proper nursing. Terehia Takiura, who adopted the deceased two months ago, said her husband had some knowledge of native remedies, and was often appealed to for advice by the natives in time of sickness. None of the natives in the vicinity of Waimiha was a follower of Katana, but they believed in tohungaism to tho extent that in many rases they thought a tolumga rouki cure sickness. Her husband treated deceased fo- whooping-cough. He sprinkled water on its head and prayed to God to restore it. She believed in faithhealing, and that was the reason she did not call in a doctor. She would act in a similar manner again. She was tho grandmother of the deceased. The coroner stated that lie. would inform the departments of Justice and Health of the facts of the case.