DRUG, GIVEN TO CHILD IN HOSPITAL, CAUSES DEATH.
UNUSUAL CASE IS SUBJECT OF INQUEST. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, March 20. The fact that all children do not derive benefit from santonin treatment was pointed out at an inquest held to inquire into the death of Clarence Victor Gaskin, aged two years and seven months. The evidence showed that the child was prescribed a treatment of the drug by a doctor at the hospital, and the medicine was given by its mother at home. The child became drowsy and fell asleep. At night he became unconscious. He was removed to hospital, and died about twenty-four hours later. The Coroner's finding was to the effect that the child died as a result of poisoning by a prescription of santonin, prescribed by the Wellington Public Hospital, the dose given being the usual one. The evidence showed that the child was peculiarly susceptible to this drug, as a result of which its administration terminated fatally.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18418, 21 March 1928, Page 3
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