CHILD’S SAD DEATH.
FATALLY SCALDED. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Sept. 18. An inquest was held into the death of John Joseph Tubberty, aged 16 months, who died in Auckland Hospital last night, the Coroner returning a verdict that the cause of death was pneumonia, following scalds accidentally received through upsetting a pot of hot- tea. The mother of the child, Mrs Delia Tubberty, said that on the evening of September 4 a pot of tea had been put on the.kitchen table. The child had been left momentarily in the room with a girl aged five. She heard a crash of something falling and a scream from the little girl, and it was discovered that the child had upset the pot of tea over himself. He was scalded on the left side of the face and body. She coated his body with' carbonate of soda and flour and in a few minutes the child was taken to hospital.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 249, 19 September 1929, Page 7
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157CHILD’S SAD DEATH. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 249, 19 September 1929, Page 7
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