ST. HELEN'S HOME INQUIRY.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1659, 28 January 1913, Page 7

ST. HELEN'S HOME INQUIRY.

L$ ' : ' DOCTORS GIVE EVIDENCE.'; : (By Telegraph,—Press Aeeool»tlon.) 1 . . 'Auckland, January 27,' .The St. Holen'a Home inquiry resumed : this morning. : . ' iA .fifth .complaint. ■pas received— frqm TV. Stovenson, a railway porter at a country station—asking for un inquiry, regard-. / Jng the accommodation for and the'treatv. Jnont of, hi 3 wife, i?ho; was confined .at the.home on May. 11, and was discharged twelve days later., Sh? was taken ill in tho night, and died on July.3l, 4 of pneujnonia,' . ■ •. i Dr. Tracey .Inglls wag the first witness to give evidence. Referring to the issuing i :.: bf;death',certificate3,. he'isaid :it ,was not. ; customary .when making out certificates . to specify tho exact place where 'death occurred.. He; denied ,that: it was ous- . ternary to ask the relatives .of ,deceased ■ patients, to omit tho name ■of the 'homo ■ .when making ■ death • announcements . through tho newspapers. ..;■■> Dr. Goldstein, recalled by Mri . Mays, , :■ detailed the condition 'of Mrs. Chrimberbin when hj attended her at St. Helen's ■Some, stating thnt she suffering from lung trouble, and that she was very f<sv- I -... J.ferish.i AVitness.'said that;he agreed,with, . ®r. Inglis's. diagnosis of Mrs. Chamberlam s case, wh'o wns in the bos ■ i all day," was cross-examined,at length by. •'.■■■ Mr..Mays,.Mr. .;Skeltoii, and Mrs. ;Emily ■ Nicol. 'In 1 the main 'the- witness corroborated the evidence given by Dr. Injrlis with . teference to M r s.. Chamberlain's death. ■ .Tho Commissioner ordered'the prodiio- • tionbefore the commission of I ,the tepaperature chart ;of Porch, as Afrs. ■ • Kicol alleged that the?copies, before the .commission dfd not agree with the orig.' 1 iaal. ,' i