BOY'S DEATH

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 143, 18 June 1937, Page 15

BOY'S DEATH

EVIDENCE OF DELAY

A MENINGITIS CASE

(By Telegraph—t'resa Association.)

NAPIER, This Day.

The hospital inquiry was confined this morning 'to circumstances surrounding the admission of a lad to hospital. It was stated in evidence that the lad arrived in a car with his father, who had an admission order, Witnesses said there was no suggestion of urgency, but a doctor was sent for. The child was kept in the car until 9 o'clock.

The father of the child, F. W. Berry, of Puketapu,. said he took the boy to the hospital on medical advice. They arrived at 8.15. The family doctor Indicated that there was no immediate hurry about reaching the hospital. Witness waited from 8.30 to 9.15 at the hospital. The nurse had told him his boy might be an infectious case. The boy subsequently died.

?Medical evidence was to tlie effect that it was an advanced case of meningitis, and death could not be averted.

This concluded the evidence on section 2 of the order of reference.

Dr. Allan Berry is expected to give evidence on the children's ward outbreak when the Court resumes this afternoon.