MIND UNBALANCED.
The War Office is inquiring into criticisms of its methods made at the Old Bailey. A woman was bound over for causing the death of her three-months-old child when the balance of her mind was disturbed by not having fully recovered from the effects of childbirth. Mr Anthony Hawke, prosecuting, said that' the defendant was informed just before the child was born that her husband was a deserter. Her allowance was stopped. Actually, he had been sent back to a sanatorium with tuberculosis. He was now discharged from the Army. • Miss Dix, defending, said: “Looking at the correspondence, one is tempted to wonder whether, morally, the War Office should not stand in the dock for this offence.”
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 64, Issue 1, 12 October 1943, Page 3
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