WEST COAST CLAIMS.

Grey River Argus, 21 July 1926, Page 5

WEST COAST CLAIMS.

HOSPITAL NURSE. Compensation for Serious Injury. (Special to “Argus.”) I WELLINGTON, July 20. A compensation allowance of £2OO is asked of Parliament by Alary Doyle of Greymouth, a 'mental hospital nurse who. was injured while struggling with a violent patient during her period of employment in the Hokitika Alentai Hospital, between September 1925 ano January 1926. Before ' assistance could reach her the violent patient stamped on her foot and also infliction injuries to the body which caused internal complaints. The petitioner .complained at the time of her foot, but was told it was alright, and later •it became so painful that she had to receive attention to it ami finally have it operated on. She was told by the doctor at the institution that she was fiatfooted and the Asylum bootmaker was instructed to build up her shoe. She could not carry on, however, and finally went into the hospital where she was operated on for internal injuries as well as to have the decayed bones removed from her foot. The foot was permanently dis!abled| while she was in. the hospital. She received a letter _rom AiacfOn Drummond, advising her to resign, and she accepted this to infer that, it she did not do. so, she would be dismissed, and that she would not be allowed to become a member of the permanent staff. Had she not resigned, she would have received her salar.v and medical expenses, and she pleads that she took her decision on the morning after her operation, when she was not in a fit state to decide. Iler expenses account totalled over £2BO. A WIDOW’S CLAIM. AIINEE’S PHTHISIS CASE. WELLINGTON, July 20. Unjust treatment is claimed to hav Ibcen meted out to Mrs Lily Willis, oi • Waiuta, vVest Coast, who has petitioned the House for consideration, i She states that her husband was: being treated as an ordinary patient i-i the Reefton Hospital, and, when he died, the Superintendent of the institution certified that death was due to parmchymatous nephritis and in trocardiac thrombosis; whereas,, the deccas ed had been in receipt of the miimrs’ phthisis pension for the previous two years. The petitioner claims to L treated as a miner’s phthisis widow.