REFUSED ADMISSION
CORONER CRITICISES HOSPITAL DOCTORS (Psa United Peess Association.] WELLINGTON, December 22. An inquest was held yesterday on the body of George Corngall Aboutty, when the coroner (Mr Page) criticised the action of the hospital doctors in refusing the man admission a couple of _ hours after his discharge without holding a conference with the gaol doctor who sent him there. t , . . ■ The evidence showed deceased to be a vagrant, careless of how ho hjed, and addicted to methylated and other spirits. Following his arrest for vagrancy on December 8, he was sent to the hospital the next day. On the 13th he was discharged from hospital back to the police. Dr Gilmer saw him on arrival at the gaol, and at once, directed that he be returned to hospital, where he was refused admission. On examination by Dr Gook, ho was again ordered to the hospital on the 15th, and died therein the lGth from acute endocarditis with septicaemia,
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Evening Star, Issue 20056, 22 December 1928, Page 6
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160REFUSED ADMISSION Evening Star, Issue 20056, 22 December 1928, Page 6
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