INCURABLE CASES.
(special to "the press.") DUNEDIN, September 7. The lack of adequate. provision ftor treating patients suffering-from incurable, diseases is felt by many people well-qualified to form, an opinion on the subject to be a matter that renuires immediate attention. Interviewed, a well-known medical man pointed out the grave source of danger that lay in keeping incurable cases in the hospital; the>-condition of some ot theso cases was in the last degree terrible. This was grofo.y unfair to other patients. There were cases pf mtomal cancer, and though the utmost euro miaht be exercised, the instruments used on these patients "n a eWe of being used on others. Thisi nould B eom to prove with clearness that tho pHuedin Hospital is not the place for incurable cases.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 12904, 9 September 1907, Page 3
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128INCURABLE CASES. Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 12904, 9 September 1907, Page 3
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