WHOSE FAULT?

Grey River Argus, 7 December 1932, Page 5

WHOSE FAULT?

TUBE LEFT IN PATIENT. DAMAGES ('LAIM FAILS (Per Press Association). HAMILTON, December 6. In a Supreme Court case at Hamilton in which Eric. Georg? Hood, nightwatchman, of Horotui, sought £3436 damages from the Waikato Hospital Board for alleged negligence, the plaintiff was non suited. A similar claim made by the plaintiff against Dr. Stewart W. Crawford of Eltham, former Surgeon at the Waikato Hospital, concluded to-day, the jury finding for the defendant. The claim was based on the allegation. that a tube was left in the plaintiff’s chest while ho wag being treated fop .eopyema, a lupg infection, at Waikato Hospital in 1926. The tube was discovered by the X-Ray, and was removed early last year.