BOGUS SHIP'S DOCTOR
PASSENGERS ATTENDED,
MAN BEFORE LONDON COURT.
A London hospital sweeper, Charles John Powell, aged 21, was fined £5 at West Ham, on a charge of falsely pretending to be a doctor.
The prosecution said that Powell, who was a hospital attendant, with some medical education, was appointed surgeon to the steamer Port Denison, bound for Australia,' by the Commonwealth Dominion Line, to which he applied under the name and qualifications of "Dr. Duncan Pick."
Powell attended a number of patients on the voyage, but nothing untoward happened. He arrived in June and left for England in August, as "Dr. Pick," in the company's steamer Port Arthur, in order to attend to the captain, who was suffering from heart disease. He gave the captain good treatment under the direction of other doctors, and afterwards sent % letter to the company admitting that he was not Dr. Pick.
The magistrate said: "This man, whose job was sweeping out a nursing home, posed as a doctor on the long voyage to and from Australia, and if anything had happened to the patients he might have been charged with manslaughter."
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Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LII, Issue 91, 12 November 1931, Page 6
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