BOY FATALLY SCALDED
SEVERE COMMENT BY CORONER. (By Telegraph. Press Association.) NELSON.. Monday. The coroner, Mr T. M. Maunsell, S.M., delivered the following verdict to-day at an inquest into the death of Richard Charles James Alsford, aged five years, a mental hospital patient: "Deceased died from shock due to scalds sustained in a bath, having been placed there by a patient who was able to gain access to the bathroom because of the bathroom door having been negligently left unlocked, or by obtaining the door key through a nurse's negligence." In the course of a review of the evidence the coroner said exhaustive inquiries into the tragedy had failed to reveal just how it occurred. This was to be deplored. It was difficult to see how it could have occurred without someone knowing the reason, and the question arose whether there had been a full disclosure of the facts.
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Waipa Post, Volume 38, Issue 2270, 19 February 1929, Page 4
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