A DOCTOR FINED.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLI, Issue 224, 21 September 1907, Page 5

A DOCTOR FINED.

THE LAW REGARDING IN-

FECTIOUS DISEASES

[PEESS ASSOCIATION.]

AUCKLAND, Sept. 21. Dr Harding Porter was fined £7 and £2 16s costs yesterday, for failing to report a case of scarlet fever which he had attended. The defendant had ordered the child to the hospital, but f-ailed to notify the Health Department. He said thathe was ill himself at the time, and tne need for notifying the Department was inadvertently overlooked.

Mr Dyer, S.M., said^ that the defendant had been previously warned about a case he was attending, and he had no excuse.