A DISGRACEFUL CASE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 298, 9 May 1913, Page 5

A DISGRACEFUL CASE.

EXCESSIVE RED TAPE. By Telegraph— Press Association. . Christchurch, May 8. Considerable indignation lias been expressed here concerning the case of a fireman, named Barry, of the steamer Maori. He was sent ashore sick and examined by the medical officer at Lyttelton and sent to the Christchurch Hospital. There it was ascertained that he belonged to Wellington, and tho authorities told him to return. The Medical Superintendent of the hospital sajs that it is a rule that each district shall treat its own cases, and Barry had! ample time to catch the ferry steamer. The doctor who examined him, on theother hand, says that if Barry travelled he would constitute a danger to other passengers, seeing that he is suf- [ fering from advanced consumption. Barry spent Tuesday night on the wharves. Arrangements were made yesterday for his'accommodation. The fireman on the Maori who left the ship on Tuesday suffering from tuberculosis, and who failed to receive admission to the Christchurch Hospital, where he was sent, and wandered about thewharves at Lyttelton all night until taken in hand by the Sailors' Home authorities, was sent to Wellington by the Maori to-night in a special cabin, which will be fumigated after the sjiip arrives. Barry belonged to Wellington, and the hospital authorities here refused to take him in for that reason. They allege that he was finite fit to travel, and that he left the hospital on Tuesday with the intention of returning to Wellington.