A CONFUSING MISTAKE

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1678, 4 October 1887, Page 3

A CONFUSING MISTAKE

A painful story couie3 from Paris. Two children m a hospital, it is said, were mi taken for each other, one child which died being buried by the wrong parents j; and the surviving one being offered to a mother who found it was not her own. The children were Buffering from aoarlatfna and no visitors were allowed io ace them. MfccUme Duhamel, a concierge, aont her boy, 'our yearß old, to the hospital, acd after two months had rotfoe thet he wa* oonvalesoent, and might be taken home. She sent a neighbor, who, however, d'd not recogniae the child, and deollned to , take him. Three daya later a nurse took j. the ohild to Madame Duhamel, bat thare ; w«ta a mutual absence of recognition. Ultimately the hoapital authorities admitted that the tickets must have been misplaced, and that Madame Duhamel'a child had died twelve days after admission. Meanwhile the other parents named Molera, believed their ohild to be dead, and had borne the expemea of the funeral. Tab two children, who were of the same age, but differed m color of the eyes and j hair, at firßt occupied adjoining beds. A f ter some daya the doctor ordered both to be transferred to another ward. The nurae who tranoferred them placed the ticket of one ohild on the other's bedbead. Whan, therefore, the Duhamel ohild died, notioe waa Bent to M. Molera, the father of the other child, and he saw the oorpso. He now states that he failed to identify U, bat it does not appear that he then expressed eny doubt B . When informed seven weeks later that his ohild was possibly atill alive, and asked whether he could identify it by any mark, he atated that there waß a mole spot on the back. There tras, however, no need for any external sign, for on his g- rig to the hospital the child sprang into his arms. The nurse who misplaced the tickets was dismissed

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