“A Ghoulish Suggestion”
HOSPITAL BOARDS AND RINGS OP DEAD PERSONS.
“I was shocked to hear it; I didn’t think hospital hoards could be so mercenary,” stated the chairman of the Palmerston North Hospital Board (Mr. J. K. Hornblow) at yesterday 's meeting of that body in referring to matters recently raised in Parliament by Dr. D. G. AlcAlillan (Dunedin) wherein he suggested that hospital boards were removing tho rings off the lingers of dead persons, before burial, and selling thdm. “The suggestion was a ghoufish one,” Mr. liornblow added, “and I am glad that the Speaker pulled Dr. AicMillan up. I had never heard of such a thing, and 1 hope this board can show a clean sheet. It is ghoulish to take a ring from the finger of a (Mad person, to whom it belongs, for tho purpose of selling it, and 1 have no know ledge of ahy such happening as far as this board is concerned.” Air. F. J. Ryder: 1 am glad to hear that, because it is a terrible thing. “A statement like that should never have been made by a public man, ’' said Air. J. Boyce. The chairman expressed the view tha; Dr. AlcAlillan should have named tha boards, rather than cast a reflection on the Jot. The discussion then lapsed.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 194, 18 August 1936, Page 6
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