Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1890-04-26 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

INFANT FEEDING AND DEATH  INSURANCE.  Mr Jun. Graham, coroner, held an inquest at South Shields anWednesday regardingthedeath of a Child, four months old, son of Alice Browlow. The child, according to the evidence, had been fed on bailey and arrowroot biscaits from two or three days after its birth. It was insured when three weeks old. The grandmother of the child said she had fed ail her okikhea on Wiley, and told her &tighter to do the same.—The Coroner: Do you read the newspapers? Witness : Yes. The Coroner : Have you never read how had a thing it is to feed young childrea on bulky ?—No.—WitDee& in anther to farther questions, said she did 'sot know that yonng children should be fed upon mother's milk, if it thold be had; and, if not, upon , cow's milk. She had fed all her &Sarre upon boiley. One of her children died when nine I months old, but she never gave it toiley.—The I Coroner: Then the others lived in spite of it—Dr. J. F. Armastecmg said he and hie assistant visited the child, and found it was being " starred from want of proper food." He told the mother how to feed it, and informed her that theeltdd was wasting away. The next day he was told that the child was dead. Me questioned the mother, and was told that the child was fed on arrowroot and bread boiley.— The Coroner, addressing the jriry, said he believed the pernicious system of infantile insurance would be put a stop to by-and-bye. Their position was this :-11 there had been evidence that either ref the WOCIIbII know that feeding an infant on boiley would shorten its life, their duty would have been I vary plain and simple, that was, to commit one or I both of thein, according to the cirournstance", to Darhani Assizes for trial for manslaughter. On I the evidence beiore them, there was no admishion that they, or either of them, knew that feeding en boiley A as pertheions ; on the contrary, the grandmother gave them an instance of bringiog up a I family on Wiley. In the face of such evidence, they could not deal with the women in the way he had indicated; all they cattle], do was to call their attention to the evidence of Dr. Armstrong, and warn them OM if they again came before a jury they would not have the benefit of ignorance of the fact that bailey eding was pernicious. A verdict in acoordsnee with the medical testinioey was seturned. The mother andgr and3nother were reprimanded by the Coroner.  DETIMMINED SUICIDE AT POCXX4IqGIt3I4, On Tneaday art inquest was Lew ibt Pooklia relative to the death of Arilliam Maggason (111 joiner, of Bielby, near Pocklingliora who °mainlined suicide by drowning himself in a moat determined manner. It seems that the unfortunate man had been troabled in ow/sequence*? beiag in afibt, s.nd on Saturday evening, whilst waking home with a man named Bell, be jumped into the eanal lock. companion allotted out, "What have you done thitt for? I can't got you out," when decaaaed re. peed arrinething to the effect that it was all right. She bogy was subsequently recovered. Deceased was matriet—The jury returned a verdict that deesesed bad eammitted suicide while in a fit of teurpornry gmenity.