SHOULD THE STARVE

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2015, 24 March 1914, Page 5

SHOULD THE STARVE

IiEGAL ASPECT OF HINT FOR SUFFRAGETTES, By A*.s»pintion-Qop.yrt(ifct "times" o,nfl Sytbjey "Buji" Settle*. . Londati, M&sk 20. Tlie Medical Local Society deeitol Mint Dr. Moraicr r B propoßal tliat tlio doctors should not t>o considered fc> be respansiblo for tlia death at a prisoner refusing substantial jncaU wlioii ' <rfforcil, was sitlmiitted to a barrister, flio dcEhired tliat tji.e obligation of gaotaii was to sec that a prisonot , ' was pwiporfe ie.cl, and as Soon as a, water or luingoi , striker became helpless.) a. doctor refusing to apiily the resources of seipiiee for the- pnJse.iTa.tion of life- would bo chargeable tvith Witirflor.

: Uii,doh, Ma.reh 22, Jho doctors certify that they examined Airs. fankHnnst'six t)a£s'after her arrest and found numerous 'bruises en hot J'ilis .and limbs and. cute on both, ■ankles, one of wkjeh was sullen and diEgoimiiFod.

TJIO iiniiSM. Were probably miwi oil tjif floor of the ea|> |)y the feet <jf sis polieeriie.n oG.s4i,n}'ing tho seats.

Dr. ig physician far mental diseases at Charing Cross Jlospit.al, and ft noted authority qn. diseases of tli.e. iiflfwjjra system—in iy fcwAt kfcter fo "The Tmes," said that the ftiit'nc.rifibs esaggeKato the oittwj- -whieh would fo'llsny tho do.Kth of a hunger sfyiker. Tiie gelWßal veriip.ti Jiij says, Votalst be "Sdty.o her rigiiiP The .value of htijwyii lift, Dp, .Mei-oiM e.9.n:tii>ii<*l, is (ft«F-gstiraafod just as much as it was undep.osttmntejt a century ago., when COQ people Wpijlit hftvfl bwm eiimiltniioously sentenced to tevtli at Newgate. Dr. "llefceiei 1 rifcainratted. %t. if Idle autjwyitieg Shfijjk fnsm allowi&r' these criminals'' to •.i.irftict thft death sentences on tJicnikehies, tli.e'* sliau.W profflafiii thjim otetkws.