MAORI CHILD’S DEATH
, INQUEST AT GISBORNE. HERBALIST’S PRESCRIPTION INEFFECTIVE. (Per United Press Association.) Gisborne, June 16. The Coroner held an inquest into the death of a Maori child, aged three, 'who caught a severe cold and was brought by its parents from the country to a herbalist, who prescribed two bottles of a cough mixture, the medicine proving ineffective. Claude Edwin Bblton, a retired schoolmaster, stated that he carried on business as a herbalist, and that the parents brought the child to him on Monday suffering from a bad cough and in a very weak condition. Witness prescribed a mixture of paregoric, peppermint, aniseed oil, and honey, and also a fluid consisting of methylated spirit and water coloured with burnt sugar to open the pores. He never pressed for payment, but if the Maoris liked to give him anything he allowed them. Witness said that he studied medicine about sixty years ago, and had been prescribing medicine for ! Maoris since 1868. ! Dr Rice stated that a post mortem revealed the child’s general condition to be poor. There was a sign of pleurisy of several days’ duration, and the medicine given would have slight effect. The Coroner returned a verdict that the child died of bronchitis and pneumonia following on pleurisy.
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Southland Times, Issue 20206, 17 June 1927, Page 6
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