A CHILD’S DEATH.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20309, 18 January 1928, Page 8

A CHILD’S DEATH.

DANGER OF NAPHTHALINE TABLETS. CORONER EXPRESSES CONCERN. (Feb United Pbess Association.) WANGANUI, January 17. The infant child of Major Bremner, of the Defence Department, who is under transfer from Hawera to Christchurch, died shortly after being taken off the train at Waverley yesterday. On Sunday night the girl, who is 17£ months old, had eaten portion of a metal burning tablet. A doctor was called, who said there was nothing poisonous in the tablets; that the child would have abdominal pains, and that oil and milk should be given to her. The child cried and vomited during the night, and the doctor again called in the morning. He washed out the child’s stomach, and said she would be all right for travel. On the train she developed convulsions, and died at a doctor’s room at Waverley. The Coroner (Mr J. S. Barton. S.M.) said there had been at least two similar cases in recent years involving various kinds of naphthaline tablets. Th e children, after treatment, appeared to get all right, and then became suddenly ill and died. He was anxious to see whether some remedy could not be found. The inquiry was adjourned for a week.