The Wellington Hospital .
ANOTHER DEATH.
' MATTERS SERIOUS.
( OiriTRD PRESS ASSOCIATION.) : .*; Wklltngton. This Day. Mrs Eaxte, one of the patients attacked at the hospital with puerperal fever, died inst before ten , this morningi The condition' of' two ''other patients is serious. THE DOCTOR'S ACCOUNT OF HOW 1 « tfHE DISEASE ORIGINATED,- - : fv/ ;'• ' • Later, j Tit FeU has.- written to the Times about sending Kate Kelly to the .hospital. He states that he attended the woman during her confinement, and • left off visiting her as usual after the ninth day, at which. time she was up and about. Four days after he was asked to see her again! witH a' vieV of^getting her into ■ the"fi6spital7"He went to see her and Kelly^ was then, sitting up and half dressed. The people she was with de-'j cUneditokeen'her oven for another night. He saw the hospital doctor on the mat- ' ter «md the latter deoided ta take her m. He-deoLares when befkaw 4he hospital surgeon he, was not aware the patient ; was suflfering bom puerperal feVer.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 69, 23 February 1885, Page 3
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170The Wellington Hospital. Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 69, 23 February 1885, Page 3
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