NAKED WOMAN FLOGGED.
PSIVAT2 ASTSLTna SCANDAL. ! ~ I LONDON, April 1. \ Uγ. Henry Hamilton, of Barnes, in the outskirts of London, was summoned to-day at the instance of the Commissioners of Lunacy for having ill-treated two women of weak intellet I. A nurse at the private asyJum in which the offence wa-s alleged to have been committed gave evidence that one of the women ran away, but was recaptured. After she had been brought back to the institution the doctor ordered the nurses to take her to a bedroom and undress her. Then when she was naked the defendant made the nurses hold the patient face downwards on the bed while he thrashed her back and legs with a. leather razor strop. J Witness further related that on another occasion a second patient was heing forcibly fed, when the doctor punched her in the abdomen. He had frequently struck patients on the head. Another nurse told how, on two occasions, she had seen a patient lying face downwards on a bed, with her clothes turned back, and the doctor hitting her •with a- canvas shoe. i The further hearing of the case was ■ adjourned. I
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 82, 7 April 1913, Page 6
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