"SCANDALOUS."
USE OF HOSPITAL MORGUE. REFUSAL FOR POST-MORTEMS. (By Telegraph.—Press Assor'atlon ) WAIHI, Friday. A councillor at a meeting of the Waihi Borough Council last night drew attention to the fact that for the second time the use of Ihe morgue at the Waihi Hospital had been refused by ihc medical superintendent to doctors acting under instructions from Hie coroner to hold a post-mortem examination. He said lie thought it was scandalous that there should he a mortuary there and tho coroner was obliged to have examinations held in the hackpremises ot' some hotel in the town. He moved that the town clerk obtain full information regarding recent and report fully lo the council with a view to placing the facts of the’ case before the Ministers of Health and Justice. The motion was carried.
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20259, 30 July 1937, Page 8
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134"SCANDALOUS." Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20259, 30 July 1937, Page 8
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