CHILD SCALDED TO DEATH
SLIPPED INTO CESSPIT (Per Press Association.) INVERCARGILL, Feb. 27 An inquest into the circumstances surrounding the death of Raymond Birchall Blomfield, aged one year and nine months, who died in Southland Hospital on Monday from severe scalds was held before a Justice of th e Peace and jury of four yesterday A verdict was returned that the child died from shock by slipping on the edge of a cesspit, into which boiling water was being run, with a view to clearing an obstruction-
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 51, 28 February 1929, Page 7
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87CHILD SCALDED TO DEATH Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 51, 28 February 1929, Page 7
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