PATIENTS WRECK HOSPITAL.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 213, 8 September 1928, Page 10 (Supplement)

PATIENTS WRECK HOSPITAL.

THREE DAYS' BATTLE WITH STAFF. A three days' battle between 40 women patients in tlic Government hospital at Kast'liau, Czeelio-Slovakia, and the doctors and nurses of the institution led to the death of one woman patient, serious injuries to four others and the arrest and imprisonment of six. The interior of the hospital was ■wrecked. The trouble arose when the physicians ordered the transfer of one of "the women to the psychopathic ward, an order to which her fellow patients objected. Ignoring threats to put them into strait jackets all 40 women attacked the doctors, nurses and attendants, demolished the furniture and bedding, smashed the window panes and threw the whole hospital into uproar. One woman in the midst of the excitement jumped from an upper window and was killed. Police and soldiers were called and firemen were ordered to turn water on the reyolters, who thereupon barricaded themselves in the operating room where they spent the night. JVhen morning came bedlam broke out anew and several women attempted to jump from the windows because they were refused permission to attend the funeral of the patient who was killed the previous day. Finally the rioters were overpowered one. by one by armed soldiers >viio lodged them in padded cells.