A Christchurch Sensation.

Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 8, 10 January 1901, Page 2

A Christchurch Sensation.

SUPPOSED CASE OF LEPROSY. SERIOUS CHARGES BY A MEDICO. [By Telegraph—Press Association.] Christchurch, last night. At a meeting of the Charitable Aid Board to-day, correspondence from Doctors Clayton (the Board’s medioal officer), Frengley, and Symea revealed a terrible case of a female in the city supposed to be suffering from leprosy. The Chairman slated that the ease had been under the Board’s relief for some years at an annual cost of £6O, but there was now a suspicion of leprosy. He had directed the attention of the hospital authorities to the case, but admittance was ref used. Doctors Clayton and Symes had diagnosed the oase as one of lupoid ulceration, and tho woman was in a terrible condition.. The matter is to be laid before Dr Mason, the Government Health Officer.

At the same meeting Dr Clayton (the Board’s medical officer), complained of the difficulty in getting cases into the hospitalsof the city. In the oase of an inmate of ono of the Charitable Aid Board’s homos who had dislocated her hip, and whose removal to tho hospital he ordered, the patient, an old woman, was not removed, and died in tho Home. It was deoided to send Dr Clayton’s letter to the Hospital Board with a request for an explanation.