DISTRICT COURT.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1074, 22 February 1883, Page 3

DISTRICT COURT.

The case of Dr Campbell v. J. Grant! claim £2O 14s 6d, for professional attendance and medicine, commenced last Tuesday afternoon in the District Cour , continued until six o’clock yesterday, and was then adjourned until to-day. All the evidence has been taken, and there will only be Counsel’s speeches and the juclgment of the Court to go through to-day. It will be remembered that the case was heard in the K.M. Court here a few weeks ago before I. N. Watt, Esq., when we published the evidence in full. The evidence given in the District Court by the same witnesses varied in the direction of showing that they bad a far better recollection of events now than they had then, and everything they said was far more pointed In addition to the evidence given in Temuka, Drs Macintyre, Lovegrove and Hogg were examined with regard t 6 Dr Campbell’s treatment of the case. Dr Macintyre stated that, after having heard the evidence, he considered Dr Campbell had treated the case on perfectly sound principles. He considered the sores spoken of were not bed-sores at all, but were the result of bruises. Bandagas were very rarely put on in cases of fracture of the pdvis, but it was advisable to put it, on such a fracture as in tbe case in point, provided the patient was able to bear it. It was tbe correct treatment to keep tbe patient on her back. He did not think tbat|_thore was anything] un-

skilful in Dr Campbell’s treatment. Fie maintained that what were said to be bedsores were not bed-sores at at', but the result of contusions or injuries the piiient had received. Drs Lovegrovc aril Hogg gave similar evidence. Both of them held that Dr Campbell’s treatment was both skilful and proper ; that it was a matter of opinion as to whether she should have been bandaged at all, that greater harm than good might have been done by setting the bones too soon, that the sores were not bed-sores but the result of bruises, that bed-sores ought not to have come on at all for at any rate three weeks after the accident, and if they could not sot the bones the first day it might have been a week or ten days before they could set them. They held that in moving her about, in using antiseptic wash, and in every other detail Dr Campbell’s treatment was perfectly correct, Judgment will be given io the case today.