SUFFOCATION

is obstruction to respiration caused by = means except the application of pre ure to the neck. en the latter mode of obstruction occurs, the term ig eras pare ” is used. Suffocation is a common cause of death amongst the infants of the poor, owing to the ieee of parents and infant sharing the same bed. This illegal in Germany. The offect of the practice is to expose the infant to eine suffocated by the parents, who, turning in their slecp, may lio on their child. Many of these cases are deliberate murder. [For treatment sce First Aid.) [s. 414]