CHILD'S DEATH

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 221, 18 September 1934, Page 10

CHILD'S DEATH

POISONED BY CRAYONS. MELBOURNE, Sept. 8. “The manufacturers of these crayons should have been aware that the colouring ingredient, chrome green, was a poison, and that they would be used by children,” said the coroner (Mr. D. Grant, P.M.) at an inquest concerning the death of Violet May Connors, 3, of South Melbourne, in the Homopathde Hospital as the result of having eaten some crayons she had been using as the South Melbourne Mission Eree Kindergarten. The Medico-Legal Analyst for Victoria (Mr. C. A. Taylor) said that he examined some crayons used at the South Medbourne Kindergarten, and a specimen taken from the child. He knew one regulation compelling chrome green to be printed on labels as a poison. Dr. C. H. Mollison, Government Pathologist, said that in view of Mr. Taylor’ evidence he was sure that deatn had been due to poisoning by chrome green crayons from the kindergarten. In recording a finding of death by poisoning innocently self-administered, the coroner said that it was surprising that the crayons were distributed without warning of the poison. He was surprised that, so far as he was a.'fle to learn, there was no prohibition on the sale of such poisons under the Poisons Act or the Health Act,