A CHILD’S DEATH
FATHER CHARGED WITH NEGLECT
(P.A.) NEW PLYMOUTH. May 13. As a result of the death of a child aged nine months on December 3, 1941. the father, Colin Clifford Taylor, of Waitara. was charged in the New Plymouth Court to-day with failing to provide adequate medical care.He was committed for trial in the Supreme Court. Evidence regarding the, condition ol the child when it was brought to her was given by the district nurse at Mokau, Sister 1. M. Sinclair, who said that the father ascribed the scalds on the child’s body to*bathing in water that was too hot, and the bruises to a fall from a table. .Asked why he had not brought the child to her. sooner, he said it was difficult to get out from his home up the Mokau River. Dr H. C. Barrett, surgeon at the New Plymouth Hospital, said he thought the child’s condition disclosed that it had been desperately ill lor some days, though that might not always be evident to the lay mind. The child would need to have fallen frojh a considerable height on to a projecting object to have suffered, a stove* in injury of the chest Wall. H. W. Sampson, launch owner, gave evidence that his launch made daily trips up the Mokau River from October to January 17.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24915, 14 May 1942, Page 4
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