DELIRUM TREMENS PATIENTS.
REFUSED AT NELSON HOSPITAL
[Press Association.]
NELSON, Dec. 3
The Charitable • Add Board last night rescinded a resolution admitting delirium tremens patients to the hospital. It ga've a. general order that no such .patients be admitted in future, and if delirium tremens developed in a patient already in the hospital he be promptly removed. It was resolved to write to the Government absolutely refusing to treat delirium tremens patients, and recommending the erection of t:i. padded cell at the police station. The chairman said it was largely the fault of the • police that the delirium tremens cases arose, as it was their duty to see that publicans did not sell too much liquor, and that all the liquor should ho of good quality.’ The resident surgeon wrote pointing out the difficulty at the consumptive annexe caused by the dread of the public to have anything to do with ex-putients, who were shunned. It was resolved to approach the Government for the establishment of an additional convalescents’ home, whither patients cured may bo sent,.'
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2365, 4 December 1908, Page 5
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176DELIRUM TREMENS PATIENTS. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2365, 4 December 1908, Page 5
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