THE INQUEST
At the inquest, the adopting mother stated that she endeavoured to get the dummy away with her fingers. Failing to do so, she telephoned to Dr. Gibbs, who found the child suffocated. He unavailingly tried artificial respiration. Had a tape or string been attached to the dummy the accident could not have occurred, neither could it had a larger dummy been used. The mother said that she'hadi taken the dirty tape away from the dummy, intending to replace it with a clean one after dressing The doctor said if t3io child had been taken by the legs and held head downwai'ds, the dummy might have come away. The use of the fingers, resulted in embedding the dummy more firmly at the back of the mouth. The coroner returned a verdict that death was caused by suffocation -and added that the adopting parents'did all that was. possible under the/distressing circumstances, y
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Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 20115, 30 June 1914, Page 7
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152THE INQUEST Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 20115, 30 June 1914, Page 7
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