WOULD BLEED TO DEATH.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3392, 6 December 1911, Page 7

WOULD BLEED TO DEATH.

BABY THE VICTIM OF MYSTERIOUS DISEASE.

Remarkable medical evidence was given at Southwark Coroner’* Court regarding the two-year-old baby of a ship’s fireman, trained Copp, living at Nccilvinger Road, Bermondsey.-—The mother said that on August 27 the child foil from a. chair. It struck its head as it foil, causing it to bite its tongue. The bleeding stopped soon afterwards. but recommenced later.

> took it to Guy’s Hospital, and it was treated, but the bleeding began again, and the child died—Dr Graham Thompson, house surgeon at Guy’s Hospital, said the child was a haemophilia patient, which meant that if it sustained a cut, such as that caused hy the bite on the tongue, the resultant hemorrhage could nut be stopped. Num/rrousi remedies wXre tried without success.— The Coroner: Supposing the child liad had an amputation of any sort, could you have stopped the bleeding?—Witness: No: it would be practically impossible.—The Coroner: AY hat does *it really arise from ?—Witness : There are two theories. One is that there are certain! constituents in the blood which make it abnormal. Another theory is that it is hereditary. It was a disease transmitted only through the mothers, and only the boys got it.— The Coroner: Wherever this child was out it would cause death?— Witness: That is highly probable. —A verdict of “Accidental death” was re turned.