MATERNITY BONUS FRAUDS.
CHARGE AGAINST DOCTOR AND NURSES
FALSE CERTIFICATES,
"A DEN OF MURDER"
fly Telegraph—Pteas AGSociation—Copyriffhl Melbourne, July 29. The trial.of two nurses named Hannah Janet Hurrcdl and Clarice Donaldson and Dr. Edward Georgo Erson, of conspiring to defraud tho Commonwealth by fictitious claims under the Maternity Allowanco Act has concluded. Mr. Justice Hood, in summing up, said' tho birth certificates signed by tho nurses overflowed with falso names. They had signed themselves over and over again as. mothers. Ono witness had said that an illegitimate oliild had been disposed of to Donaldson for Jj:]o. If tho statements regarding such transactions wero anything liko true, this hospital had boon simply a don of murder. If children had not been absolutely dono to death, they had probably been allowed to starve away. Er'soii was in an unfortunate position. Erson tad signed over forty certificates, but liad attended only twenty-six cases, his explanation being that ho had signed tho certificates in blank through carelessness. The nurses wero found guilty, and each ■ was sentenced to twelve .months' imprisonment, and fined .£IOO each, Erson was acquitted.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1815, 30 July 1913, Page 5
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183MATERNITY BONUS FRAUDS. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1815, 30 July 1913, Page 5
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