WAS STARVATION ACCOMPANIED BY OTHER ILL TREATMENT?
This question may arise where evidences of starvation are apparent.
Such cases are met among young children neglected or abused by parents or those in whose care they may have been placed, or among the alienated or sick in the care of cruel or unsympathetic attendants.
Infants placed with “wet-nurses” or found in the so-called “baby farms” also furnish cases which fall under this head.
A careful examination into the collateral circumstances of the case, together with the results of a careful post-mortem examination, usually render a positive answer to this question possible.