A COMPLAINT.

North Otago Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 979, 2 December 1901, Page 2

A COMPLAINT.

-—♦—— BY TELEGRAPH, TiMARu, November 30. A committee ; o'f 'three Menjbera of MuHospital Board held, 'an'inquiry' this afternoon into complaints made by Ja.B, Dunne, father of a large family. The first was that a ohild of his, 10J years of' age, had been operated on without his oonsent. The second was that first his daughter and later himself had been rudely treated and insultd by the resK dent surgeon on visiting ths hospital incidentally.' Dunne alleged that hi» : , children contracted scarlet fever In the hospital, is to the operation, which was merely the lancing of a superficial abscess, though Dunne got the idea that something important wjs done, requic ing an hour's work. Dr Logan stated that Dunne first told .hint, to use , his own : judgment, and then -'to jwit; : ' ,- pone'lfc, Bat '"he:-, aohty'en 1 the -)&# •- mer pWmission: As .to the' alleged . insults, DrLogan ordered the'girloutiif '••'■ the' hospital because she iterated jk • going to the jnfe.tioua oases, wart, m ; ' talking with her suitors (patjentsw WO war'4l after hefng told ijot .to, • do -m. Dunno himself was ordered off: for look: : ing through tle.flnenwindw, though; he had been told not to go near the wajd. : His idei that his ohildren contracted soarlet ferer in the hospital, was dll* provodby.the evidence of resident and ■: assistant. This Idea was ohiefly based - on thV fact that most of the ewes 'from v : his family (live in all/'-were'flraf diaS -? -' riosed as Gernjan'moasles; or diphtheria; ' This was; showni to p'e. due to the diffiv'"'■:.'. pulty of disnijminptins ilioso coinp|atht»;"■'. ' : in the early. stigod; The Ootqtqit^q4 ;■ f will report their vQMotadon^fr.tai %:i