Another Auckland Scandal
Q (per pkess association.) Auckland, March 11. A young women named. Lydia Baker r who lias suffered from brain disease and paralysis, and who died at Ouehu'nga yesterday, and was an inmate uf the Oostley Home, and it is stated on the authority of Dr Scott, who attended her afier she was removed from the institution, that, while there, owing to the want of proper appliances tor treating her case, she developed bed sores, two of which on the hips .were of such a' depth as to expose the bone for three or four inches; It is also aliened that owing ti> the fact that the matron of the Home liasno assistant she had to attend to this case and' di ess the girl's wounds whilst she wasin charge of a . mnternitj case-, ' which wa<. in tha Home lit the same time, this beinjj a breach of the recognised law of medicine. An inquest on the bo<ly of rhe girl Baker is to be held at Onehu:ii;a t i-monoff. ,
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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 111, 12 March 1891, Page 2
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172Another Auckland Scandal Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 111, 12 March 1891, Page 2
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