AN INFANT’S DEATH.
CHANGE OF NKGI.ECT
[Per Press Association.]
WELLINGTON, May 21
At the inquest to-day on the body oi : a child five months old, ay ho had died in Nurse Callingham’s receiving home. Lower Hutt, the evidence showed that the in taut had weighed 6 Jibs. The coroner. Dr. McArthur, returned a verdict that death Avas due to inanition, oAving to malnutrition, probably aggravated by diarrhoea. He said the child had not been cared for as it should have been, and a professional nurse having the care of such a child Avas guilty of absolute neglect in not calling in a doctor. For several weeks before death the child Avas nothing but skin and hone, and the nurse had no right to rccch'e any children in the home. He retained her license, or so-called exemption, Avith the object of communicating with the Department in the matter. After the inquest the police laid an information against Airs. Callingliam, charging her under the Infant Protection Act with neglecting the deceased infant in such a- Avay as was likely to endanger its health. The case aaIII be heard next Wednesday.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2508, 22 May 1909, Page 5
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188AN INFANT’S DEATH. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2508, 22 May 1909, Page 5
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