Maori Child.

Thames Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 19604, 9 January 1936, Page 3

Maori Child.

NEGLECT TO CALL DOCTOR. CORONER REPRIMANDS PARENTS (By Telegraph. —Press Association). TAUMARUNUI, Jan. 9. “Reprehensible” was the word used by the district coroner, Mr. A. S. Liard, in describing the delay in calling a doctor by the parents of Sallie Bell, a Maori child, aged three, who died at Pukerimu Pa, near Matiere, on January 6. The coroner said the Government provided for medical attendance and medicine free to those natives who could not afford to pay, and thus natives who failpd to pall a doctor were guilty, in a degree, of negligence. Evidence by the parents showed that the child became ill on January 3, and gradually became , worse until January 6, when she died at 3 a.m. The parents treated the child with ipecacuanha wine, which appeared to give relief. They did not call a doctor on January 5. They thought they were competent to deal with the trouble, and were afraid of incurring expense. Dr. Turnbull of Ghura, who carried ot a post-mortem, said the cause of death was broncho-pneu-monia.