DEATH OF A CHILD

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22269, 23 May 1934, Page 10

DEATH OF A CHILD

SCALDED WITH MILK FROM BOTTLE A CASE OF MISADVENTURE. (Peb United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, May 22. “ This is the first case of its kind to come under my notice,” said the coroner (Mr F. K. Hunt, S.M.) at the inquest concerning the death of a nine months’ old child, George William Banbury, who died in the Auckland Hospital on Sunday following burns received when he pulled the teat off his bottle of hot milk. Harriett May'Raynor, of Papatoetoe, foster mother of the child, said she gave the child the bottle of milk. She had heated the milk in a container and put it in a bottle with a rubber teat attached./ “I tested the milk with my .finger before putting it in the bottle, and it appeared to be about the right heat,”, witness continued. The deceased took the bottle with his two hands with the, teat in his mouth and com menced to suck. He always used to feed himself from the bottle and we did not have to hold him up to feed him. I looked at him almost immediately after giving him the bottle and noticed that the teat was off. It was then in his mouth, having come off the bottle through his tugging at it. The contents of the bottle were spilled over his head and shoulder I think.” “ I can come to no other conclusion except that it was a ease of misadventure,” said Mr Hunt, in returning a verdict that death was due to toxamia and bronchitis following burns accidentally received.