An Yack’s Death.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 380, 21 November 1889, Page 3

An Yack’s Death.

[raox oua own cobeesboxbxst.J Navies, last night. At a meeting of ths Hospital Board yestsr* d»y. Dr Menzies, in tbe course of his statement oonoerning Ah Yaak, said that the appearance of the body after death suggested that ho had been strangled,

In reference to the above out the H.B. Herald comments as follows:—Ah Yack was formerly in the hospital, and was discharged as incurable some weeks ago. He went home to Hastings, but as ho could not receive proper attendance there Dr. Faulkner sent him back again. After some shuffling about between the officials and some members of the committee, he wae refused admittance unless a Chinese friend who accompanied him would stay and attend on him. The reason for this stipulation appears to have been that when in tbe hospital he was guilty of the moot abominably ffl' hy habits of which it is possible to conceive—they are simply indescribable in the columns of a newspaper. Dr, Menzies, in his evidence, expressed surprise that the nurses did not strike, so horrible were their duties in attending on the man, and we can quite conceive his unwillingness to subject them to a repetition of their previous experience of Ah Yack We will go further, and say that no woman should be asked to perform such offensive offices. But was there pq other way out of the difficulty, besides asking Ah Yack’s friend to desert his business and wait upon the patient! Could not a male nurse have been temporarily engageds Wo have the spectacle of a man at death's door—we admit that the authorities did not realise the gravity of his situation—turned away from a public hospital, maintained by public funds, and so maintained for tbe express purpose of accommodating oases of Sickness which, on account of the poverty of of the patients or for any other reason, cannot be attended to elsewhere.