A PUBLIC SCANDAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 132, 4 June 1907, Page 4

A PUBLIC SCANDAL.

It -was impossible for the Hospital Board to avoid discussing ihe unf ortaaatc circumstances that attended th.c death ol the late Miss Mc_L_l_n. But public f eelr in" on this subject demands a more definite settlement of this question than the Board reached yesterday. Wherever the fault may lie, it is simply monstrous t__t a helpless invalid should have been taken from her home in the ambulance unattended, in surh a helpless condition that she actually died on her way to the Hospital. It is apparently a moot point whether the Health Department ought to have sent some official to take charge of the proceedings, or whether the Charitable Aid Board, under such drcumstanees. ought to have employed a nurse. But the one palpable and manifest fact is that this iniquitous practice of transporting helpless patients in the ambulance alone must be discontinued at once and fcr ever. As one of the members of the Board said yesterday, this deplorable ocrorrence would be a disgrace to any civilised community. The people of Auckland do not care -w_et_er it i≤ the Hospital Board or the Health Department that pays for proper attendance in such cases; but for the sake of our city's reputation and in tie name of Iramanity they hare a right to demand that the Board shall see to it that not_i__ of tihis sort occurs again