DOCTORS AND POLICE CASES.
(To the Editor of. the Evening Star.) . Sib,—ln your local of last evening's issue jou give me credit for an amount of good nature which I did not possess. "Will you kindly allow me to correct the same, and to point out to you that I only consented to hold the post-mortem en the child on the Coroner's pointing out that he had the power to compel a medical man to tbe operation, and the choice of doctors lay between Dr Huxia ble and myself. Now, Sir, I have taken the trouble to find out that so far and no further can a medical man be compelled to act in police eases likely to become Supreme Court ones. Should another case like Hazlett's-chance to come on I declare most solemnly that I would refuse
for the present, remuneration. Drs Hoxtable aod Callan have both agreed to follow euit, and so, I presume, would Dr Silgonr.—l am, &c, Maetin H. Payne. Thames, Dec. 14,1882.
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Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4354, 14 December 1882, Page 3
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167DOCTORS AND POLICE CASES. Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4354, 14 December 1882, Page 3
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