AN INFANT’S DEATH.
CORONER CONDEMNS DANGEROUS PRACTICE. tßy Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Gay. • Rita Rebecca Thomas, aged four months, was found dead in bed bv her mother yesterday 'morning. At the inquest the coroner,returned a verdict that the ..child had been aevideiitallv suffocated, having been overlain. He added a rider that the practice of mothers sleeping with infants was dangerous, a lid that a. separate bassinet should be provided.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 46, Issue 14143, 14 June 1920, Page 5
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