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From: mariposa <>
Subject: Re: [ORKNEY] Causes of death in records...
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 00:35:17 -0600


Lisa Conrad wrote:

> I have been researching deaths

> And an infant getting "accidentally over-laid" means that
> whomever was nursing him/her at the time, nurse-maids being
> usually more lax than moms, accidentally fell asleep while
> nursing the baby, suffocating the infant by rolling on top
> of him/her during sleep.

Often these were SIDs deaths, and so listed because, in the absence of
other
cause the mother or maid "must have" over-lain the child. Actual cases
of an
adult rolling over and smothering a child are very rare AFAIK.
Nicki

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