INJURIES TO CHILD

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 111, 14 May 1942, Page 4

INJURIES TO CHILD

FATHER COMMITTED FOR TRIAL (P.A.) New Plymouth, May 13. As a result of the death of a child aged nine months on December 3, 1941. the lather, Colin Clifford lajlor. of Vvaitara. was charged in the New Plymouth Court to-da> with failing to provide adequate medical care. He was committed for trial in lhe Supreme Court. Evidence of the condition of the child when brought lo her was given by the district nurse at Mokau, Sister 1 M. Sinclair, who said that the father ascribed the scalds on the child’s body to bathing water that was too hot, and other bruises to a fall from a table. Asked why he had not brought the child to her sooner, he said it was difficult to get out from his home up the Mokau River. Dr. B. C. Barrett, surgeon at New Plymouth Hospital, said he thought the conditions disclosed that the child had been desperately ill some days, though that might not always be evident to a lay mind. The child would need to have fallen from a considerable height on to a projecting subject to have sustained a stove-in injury of the chest wall. H. W. Samnson. launch owner, gave evidence that his launch made daily trips up the Mokau River from October to January 17.