ROTORUA BATHS TROUBLE.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1700, 17 March 1913, Page 4

ROTORUA BATHS TROUBLE.

DR. BERTRAM'S VERSION. (ByTTelegraph.—Pres s Association.) Rotorua', March 15. In connection with the trouble, with the balth attendants, Dr. Bertram, in a statement to the press, said he was placed in a falso position by the published precis of his remarks to the staff, as it would appear that he had unwarrantably interfered with tho management of the institution. Having had, on several occasions, serious complaints regarding the following out of his prescriptions, he had communicated with Dr. Scott, who invited him to state his complaints before tho staff. The complaints were that the temperatures of the baths were not adhered to, that patients were left in the baths without being visited by tho attendants, aud that the times of baths were exceeded. Ho had emphasised tho risk of fatalities in any of these cases, and, warned the attendants that if such occurred it would mean that the whole staff would suffer, innocent as well as guilty. Dr. Bertram pointed out that tho paragraph gave the impression tlmt ho told the staff that If his proscriptions were not carried out correctly, lie would seoure the dismissal of the whole staff. Ho merely stated that_ in_ tho event of a fatality wholesale dismissal would bo imperative.