HOSPITAL DOCTORS.
CRITICISED BY CORONER. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Dec. 22. An inquest was held concerning the death of George Corrigall, aged about 56 years when the coroner, Mr E. Page, criticised the action of the hospital doctors in refusing the man admission a couple of hours after his discharge without holding a conference with the gaol doctor who sent him there. The evidence showed deceased to be a vagrant, careless of how he lived, and addicted to methylated and other spirits and following his arrest for vagrancy on the" Bth December, he was sent to hospital next day. On the 13th he was discharged from the hospital back to the police. Dr. Gilmer saw him on arrival at the, gaol and at once directed that he be returned to the hospital where he was refused admission. On examination by Dr. Cook, he was again ordered to the hospital on the loth and died there on the l&th from acute endocarditis with septicaemia.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 21, 22 December 1928, Page 9
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