STRANGULATION OF CHILD
APPARENTLY AN ACCIDENT.
DEATH IN AUCKLAND HOSPITAL.
By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, Aug, 16.
A child aged four years and eight months, named Ronald Harvey, apparently accidentally strangled himself in the Auckland hospital yesterday.
According to the police - report to the coroner the child had bronchial pneumonia, and it was found necessary to restrain him k a jacket. One of the bands of the jacket slipped round his neck, and he died, of asphyxia. The inquest to-day was adjourned and at the suggestion of the hospital superintendent a post-mortem examination will be made.
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Taranaki Daily News, 17 August 1934, Page 6
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