BABY’S SAD FATE
FOUND IN DYING STATE PARENTS ATTEND DANCE Returning to her home a short distance from the hall where she bad been attending a ball at Takilii, neaiy Raetihi, about 2.30 o’clock on Friday morning, Mrs. Kenneth S. Wright found her two-months-old baby dying. Mr. and Mrs. Wright had left their two children, the other being 15 months old, while they attended the dance, but they returned to the house periodically to see that they were all right. The mother found the child dying when she arrived home at 2.30 and when 1 Dr. Feltham, of Raetihi, arrived, the baby was dead. An inquest was opened before Mr. J. Lee, J.P., coroner. The father, Kenneth Stewart Wright, gave evidence that he went home to see the baby at 9.30 and 11.30, when it was well. Mrs. Ava Alma Wright, the mother, said the child had a slight cold and was sleeping with a dummy in its mouth.
Dr. Felton said the dummy in the child’s mouth bad apparently affected its respiration. A post-mortem examination revealed signs of asphyxiation, and this fact would bo in accordance with his hypothesis that, owing to the child having a cold its nasal passages might have been blocked. The inquest was adjourned.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19126, 22 September 1936, Page 4
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209BABY’S SAD FATE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19126, 22 September 1936, Page 4
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