DEATH BY SUFFOCATION.
BABY IN MOTHER’S BED. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. The practice of mothers taking their babies to bed with them was adversely commented upon by Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., at the inquest concerning the death of a baby girl found dead in ieJ beside her mother. “It is a bad practice, and is practically condemned now,” rhe coroner said. “It is a long time <ince we have had a ease of this kind. Mothers should not take babies to bed with them.” The mother stated taf.t when she went to sleep the baby was resting on her arm. During the night it slipped off and she found the child dead in the morning. A verdict of death through suffocation was returned.
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Taranaki Daily News, 6 May 1926, Page 9
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