DOCTOR DEREGISTERED

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20184, 29 February 1940, Page 2

DOCTOR DEREGISTERED

DIVORCE SUIT SEQUEL • "INFAMOUS CONDUCT” . LONDON, Dec. 20. A doctor who was co-respondent in a divorce suit was 'ordered to be struck off the Medical Register by the General Medical Council yesterday. He is Dr. George IT’.tlman, registered as of Dover House road, Roehampton, S.W. It was alleged that he committed misconduct with Mrs. Olive May Dunand, that he .stood in professional relationship with Mrs. Dunand' and her husband. Mr. Ernest Lennox Dunand, and that he was guilty of infamous conduct in a professional respect. Mr. Winterbottom, solicitor to the council, read a typescript of evidence given in the Divorce Court, and said that Mr. Dunand was a director" and lived at East Sheen, S.W. He married when •He was 25 and his wife 23, and there were four daughters. The evidence showed that according to Mr. Dunand, Dr. Holman was in attendance when Mrs. Dunand's second child was born. Mr. Dunand spoke of noticing a change in his wife’s affections in 1!)34 and the following year she told him she no longer loved him. Mr. Thomas Carthew, K.C., for Dr. Holman, said that he married Mrs. Dunand immediately after the decree nisi was made absolute. Affection Grew Dr. Holman had been qualified for 30 years. Mr. Carthew continued: “Here is a man who, apart from this has, a most honourable and high character both in regard to his professional work and his private associations. “From the evidence which has been received this affection between the doctor -and Mrs. Dunand grew, and apparently had been maturing for sopie tupe. "However serious and heinous in your eyes this offence must be, I can only beg on his behalf and, of his wife that you will temper justice with mercy.” After considering the ease in camera, the president announced that the facts alleged against the doctor had been proved, and that they had found him guilty of infamous conduct in a professional respect.