WHEN A CHILD CHOKES
CORONER’S ADVICE IN PEANUT CASE LONDON, October 1. “The best thing to do when a foreign bodv becomes lodged in the throat of a child is to hold the child by the feet and pat him on the back, and tho obstruction will sometimes eome out,” said Dr Edwin Smith, the North-East London coroner, yesterday. He was holding an inquest on Frederick Carlyle Mitchell, a 3-year-oM boy, living at Balcorne Street, Hack. Hey, who was eating some peanuts anc raisins when one of the nuts became lodged in his throat. Tho air passagt was completely blocked, and the child died. The coroner, recording a verdict of accidental death, said that unfortunately the peanut was the exact shape and size to block the air passage of • child of three.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 288, 4 December 1929, Page 7
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