MISTAKE IN ADDRESS
REMOVAL TO ASYLUM
INQUIRY INTO BROAD CASE
. LONDON, December 14. Mr. G, H. Shakespeare (Parliamentary Secretary for Health); replying to a question in the House of Commons, said that Middlesex County Council, ■which was responsible for the recent forcible removal of Mrs. Stamley P. Broad to an asylum through a mistake in au address, was inquiring into the case. Ministerial action, had been deferred until the result of the inquiry was known. A wook ago it was reported that a New Zealander, Mrs. Stanley P. Broad, living in West London, was mistakenly conveyed to a public institution as a mental suspect. She was sitting in her home alone when, according to her own statement, she was seizod by two ambulance men and forcibly taken to the institution, whore she was undressed and put to bed. Her protests went unheeded until a doctor examined a visiting card in her handbag and discovered that the ambulance had beon sent to the wrong address.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 145, 16 December 1933, Page 9
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164MISTAKE IN ADDRESS Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 145, 16 December 1933, Page 9
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