CHILD VICTIMS
M .or HOSPITAL BLUNDER, j
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BERLIN, July 11
doctors and one nurse hove : been ftfirested at Lubeck. They are charged with homicide in connection with the deaths of the fifty-five child-n-.j-eh from tuberculosis recently, when ■ -v'it was stated that active germs of s. ; tuberculosis were given to the child-,
*.f j-en l instead of a serum in connection .< with' the Calmette process for treatment of another ailment. i it is now feared that most of the ;S ixty-four children who are still in ' Xu beck Hospital will not recover. , The prosecution alleges that there were continued inoculations with the tuberculosis germs after the first of • the children had died, and moreover, that they destroyed the serum in order to hide the cause of the epidemic. ! '
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Hokitika Guardian, 14 July 1930, Page 5
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