Kentish Mercury, Friday 10 January 1890.

A Child Fatally Scalded.

Before Mr. E. N. Wood Deputy Coroner.

On Friday at the "Smiths Arms," High Street, Deptford on the body of Rosinn Redsell, infant child of Albert Redsell, labourer, of 10, Plough Court, Waterside. The father of the deceased had been committed for trial from Dartford police-court on a charge of stealing horse provender, belong to his master, Mr. Parkhurst, and had been obliged in consequence to leave the Downs Farm, where he had and his family previously lived. Before removal the deceased, who was 2 years and 5 months old, was scalded by the upsetting of a kettle, and was conveyed, wrapped up in three blankets, in a perambulator to the new residence of the family at the Waterside. Dr. Hamilton said the child died from inflammation of the lungs, consequent upon scalding, and said the family were in a wretchedly poor condition.

The Coroner commiserating the position of the mother and her family, and expressed the hope that something will be done for them by the public.

The father have been sentenced to 4 months' hard labour at the County Sessions at Maidstone.