SCARLET FEVER PATIENT
ESCAPES FROM HOSPITAL. SEQUEL IN COURT. (By Telegraph-Press Association.) AUCKLAND, October 14. For leaving hospital while in isolation suffering from scarlet fever, Edna Baldwin was convicted in the Magistrate’s Court and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within three months. For aiding and abetting her, James Baldwin, her husband, was ordered to pay costs, 10s. The police said ' that the husband applied to the medical superintendent for permission for the wife to go home, but Dr. Craven refused permission until the period of isolation had expired. Later the woman was missing, and when a police sergeant visited the home her husband denied knowledge of his wife’s whereabouts. He agreed to a search being made, and the wife was found hiding under a bed. She was token back to hospital. . Mr C. A. Orr Walker said that the. woman had been sufficiently punished. Common sense should have shown hen the danger of her action.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 October 1938, Page 7
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