THE WELLINGTON HOSPITAL.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1971, 24 February 1885, Page 2

THE WELLINGTON HOSPITAL.

fnvTiaw.KU'ir.— Pia»s v.-.somnov ] Wl-LLIM. "ON, MoiliLlV. Tnh Colonial Seoietary is mikiri:.' euquiiii'S and taking ptofcs<sional opitiicii icgaiding the infectious blood poi-oniiit.' in the hospital, and it will 1)3 a few <la.\ s before it is decided whether to hold n,i enquiry or not. In his letter to the Colonial Secietary, Dr (Jhilton, medical officer of the hospital, states thnt " <■>.> Saturday morning last Dr Fell, wlio came to the hospital, asked me if I conld admit a case which he lintl been attend ing, and who had been confined a slioit time previously, but had pot over h'-i confinement, and was sufleiing from some lung affection and weakness. lit- «.i\e me to understand that the voman had no home, and that virtually it was a case of emergency. I told him tint such bein» the circumstances, I would admit the case aI; once without an order. I left the hospital about half past two fw the Tborndon baths, after informing the porter that if a woman boaiingDi Fell's card came to the hospital she was t> be admitted. I returned about 5, and found the patient Kate Kelly in the female ward. I evammed hei, and at once recognised it as a case of puerperal fox er of a bad type. She died the next day. I reiter.ito the statement that Dr. Fell told me that the case was one in which the worn in had been confined, aud subsequently was suffering from lung mischief. Had I the slightest suspicion that then 1 was any puerperal infection in the case I should have declined absolutely to have any thing to do with it. Uut I trusted to Dr Fell, xvlio I supposed had made u coircct diagnosis." Dr. Fell, in his letter, says he attended the woman during her con finement, and did so for nine days after, when she was up and doing well. Four days later he was called in, when Kelly, the woman in question, was (sitting up in bed. The persons with whom she was stopping declined keeping her long, an I as lie was unable to treat or examine her there, he made anange incuts for her being removed to the hospital. In conclusion he said "When I saw her in the morning I did not believe that it was a case of puerperal fe\ er, and my reasons were these : Pnerpci.il fever begun (I qnote from the best and most recent authority on the subject) geneidlly within two or three days after delivery, larely as late as the fourth or fifth day. Now, I know from personal obserxation, that my patient was free fiom fever on the ninth day ; secondly, it is, to say the least of it, extraordinary that a patient with puerperal fever should choose to ilre««» and sit up and say she felt better like tint ; thirdly, there was the lung inflamation, as Dr. Chilton admits miuht be causing all her symptoms \x hen I saw her. lint still with all this I felt doubtful of the case, and took trouble to xvarn Dr. Chilton. That he chose to ignoie my warning is no reason why I should now have to suffer."

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