A BABY'S DEATH
MILK INHALED INTO LUNGS ASPHYXIATION CAUSED (Peh United Press Association) AUCKLAND, May 31. “ Tliis case should be a warning to mothers and all who have charge of infant children,” said the coroner (Mr F. K. Hunt, S.M.) in finding at an inquest to-day that the infant son of Mrs Mary Elizabeth O’Brien, of Remuera, died from asphyxiation caused by the inhalation of milk into the lungs. The evidence showed that last Friday week about 1.30 the mother, while doing household duties, left the child in its cot with its head on the pillow and the teat of the feeding bottle in its .mouth. On returning three-quarters of an hour later she was alarmed by the appearance of the child and called a doctor, who found that death had occurred.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23205, 1 June 1937, Page 13
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