Medical Incompetence.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 143, 22 May 1885, Page 3

Medical Incompetence.

A " "STRiCMGE" * TALIii 'bF 1 TH^ 1 ; F. CHRIS^Qn'UiRCH'IipSOTAL. - j -• .. — . ■■".'■ 1 1 A WeUjip^t'oA-pfl^^r stajj^s ; that <t,Jong 4nd^;uost^jmti6i)a^orrfe3^»donci(?^ia».l|eoii on fbr soine tii«*e piist bi^btt'efeh- : fihe,Q;)lqiiial Se^rptu,r.y^ and Dx .!J/?dwiU v . 4 leatlihg' niedical; pf acfeioiler iat'^ihsii ! "d'm.rch, and for many voara health § of;hcSc jft aift»l?Grtof jliif iHo4ii|al kriliies^ ,imd- jinj§{lpinyl at jtue. pfi|j>§chuPcfi'<£Kisf)iciM.^Mr lleclwfll| ft^seenft, lhas reported that" the internal manage|m§n;t?^)f yth^. hVjsnika^ ig, :«,rid -.has • trtng ||)een, something scandalous, the most ] prdir^ajry. '^f^uarclti'jof^ life pr health jj of the pa^ieijts h*aying v l)ocn neglccte'it fov i k'ears, |tnclit|ie:c6nf equenQes bpingulmoot !increcliWy slitdckiiig. AiribligSt J^other : things' k^ Vikl eoiGilhunicated-ig the Qol yenjiiaemiithe HnAlr*p!a,ttidiftft,«>ot a* case jSn a patient, suffering from hernia, jhvas bperAted^up^vcluite/knp^opcrly.'anil : Kinder a complete inisnnd.C]:sta.nding, of jjty^hm^e^ fee wW'iaiilal ; l ir^sults. Such v \vas -, th»^ iucpinneteuco^ (iafio!"ilMMlnie^ligeh^Wd^f»in t'*'tfid- : tease that thy r unloiWHate was .i'^Sjt: "_W-tlifee^6a *^p^;vin'tQla. toi-tni-os -iihd Iman^lcil' :;i^ioraiic"e!" Qf opStdin^jand"!- ;jtlieii"f^b-. ; i tjiej" ,»e*cosj6tiiry. jprppqsjses; ; 'h«iVi.n{j.' .been ftppU«(ittr r obyiitidg,_ the. .worst' : con6e-." I qneiices.x)f.ail this yiolcncG and. .butchery.;.. 'Itiisra-tlh-meci-, •.^ppnv.en-tly without /.con•i tl'adictioiiv that the^nqairy vr hieir shoiil.t i h'rtve takeri place umler authority- of;the Hospital Bqord :? was- worso >than t fijnctoyy ;* t'hlitf, m 'slun ; ij':p.a i rily 'j'roav : fedr ami paf tly from fitvoiir me Hospital ' Botfrd.-vyrtoall^iibjiirkcdjall u|iuf^/- C r J?l^! sanie^ mitii whb had caßfeodMiße -death 61 ' the patient was allowed to perform,^or to pre'end' to perfohn/tfiep'Qst! 1 mortem examination, and/his . certificate, of the caVfee of death, was accepted a^sj^f|cient.. Tlie certificatp was to tlje cflfect that the patient had died from, his malady, while there could, be no doiib' t Svliatevdry that he liad bled to death through iin Inconceivably stupid blunder m tho operation.. Dr _ .Ned will wrote demanding "the appointment of,an independeiit.Royal Commission not' connected m any way with the hospital department. > After t some delay the Untler-fcjecretary replied that, on r 'mß,ture consideratibn, this Golonial '■ Secretary. had ; come tp the conclusion i that the facts .-disclosed by Dr Ned will's Veport? : if tVite, ought l to come not under : a TloyarCommissiou but under anoiUer | tribunal, meaning, of course,' a criminal j in'osecution. . . ; ;