ANOTHER CASE

Evening Post, Issue 27, 31 July 1935, Page 14

ANOTHER CASE

REQUEST DECLINED

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

AUCKLAND, July 30.

Further complaints regarding the treatment of his son in Auckland Hospital were made byf Mr. William Morrissey, of Kingsland(, at a special meeting of the hospital board today. The boy, Desmond Wallace Morrissey, aged three years, died in the hospital on May 29 while cistetrnal puncture was being performed as treatment for a form of meningitis. At an earlier inquiry the board ' decided that the correct treatment had been followed.

In asking for the inquiry to be reopened, Mr. Morristsey said that Dr. R. J. McGill, who performed the operation, had admitted; at the Coroner's inquest that he< had punctured a bloodvessel during the operation. Mr. Morrissey disagreed wiith witnesses at the earlier inquiry that there was no hope of recovery from influenzal meningitis, and submitted thact the operation on his son should have been carried out in the operating theatre and not in the ward.

The inquiry came to an abrupt end when Dr. McGill 'refused to answer any questions by Mr. Morrissey. The board had accepted his statement at the previous inquiry, he said, and he had nothing further to add to it. If necessary, he would discuss the matter further in privates with Mr. Morrissey. This offer Mr. Morrissey declined.

The board expressed confidence in Dr. McGill's work.