INFANT SCALDED
INJURIES PROVE FATAL. [ Per Prens Association. ) MASTERTON, April 2C Suspended by his jumper from a tap over a copper containing hot water, a boy named Peter Walter Perry, 2 yean and 2 months, was fatally scalded. Apparently the boy climbed up th® tubs and on to the copper, the lid of which capsized with his weight, hi« jumper catching in the tap. Hi® mother heard him scream and found tho < boy with his legs and the lower part of his trunk in the wt ter. Ho wa® rushed to hospital where his death occurred to day, six days after thc accident. The parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Perry, reside at Tararua Street, Al aster* ton.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 97, 27 April 1933, Page 6
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118INFANT SCALDED Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 97, 27 April 1933, Page 6
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