BOGUS MESSAGE
ABOUT HOSPITAL PATIENT
■ AUCKLAND, December 19
The recent perpetration of what was described ag a cruel and despicable hoax, was revealed at a meeting of the Auckland Hospital Board. The report from the House Committee stated that on a recent evening the father of a girl who was a patient in the hospital, had received a telephone message stating that the girl had died. The message purported to come from the hospital. The Rev. W. 0. Wood, chairman of the committee, said the information had not been sent from the hospital. It was a definite rule that aU deaths had to be reported in writing to the responsible officials, and the notes were recorded in a special hook of all messages sent. In this ease the report was not given in the form of words employed at the hospital. The father of the child was not on the telephone, but the message bed been telephoned to a neighbour. The father had immediately gone to the hospital and found his daughter was not dead. 1
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 December 1933, Page 7
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