A very unfortunate and sad incident occurred this day 49 years ago. A three-month-old baby boy had suffocated when a pet cat lay on him while he was asleep in his pram.
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The coroner, Mr Dobson, at the inquest into the death of the baby, late of Mackellar Crescent, Cook, returned a finding of accidental death by suffocation. In a statement, the boy's mother, Mrs Carole Ross, said she had left him in his pram in a bedroom of the house during the morning.
She had checked him earlier, but when she had returned later, she found the cat had been lying on top of the baby. Noticing her baby boy wasn't breathing, she and a neighbour had taken the boy to a doctor's surgery at the Cook shopping centre.
After applying artificial respiration, the doctor said it was "too late". The autopsy report attributed death due to suffocation.
