DANGEROUS CASES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 8162, 25 January 1890, Page 5

DANGEROUS CASES.

I [EY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Timaru, Friday. Hie Hospital Board to-day had a long distvir.n on the case of puerperal sepheaemia ■f'j-td admission to the -Hospital. There it- been a good deal of newspaper controwj over it. Alter hearing the opinions im surgeon and medical member, and by EWts tho-e of other practitioners, on the fa: danger ot admitting such cases to a gaatl, /jospital, the action taken was approval, •vnd an order given that" no such ci-r: oe received. A member gave notice to move for consideration the question Tiether provision cannot be made for their Sthtinent under isolation for the protection c: the general public, he fearing private petitioners sometimes yield to the temptaloa. and endanger other patients when they hve a case of blood poisoning on their land;. There have been several fatal cases of that nature within the past twelve aontii?. The case in question was brought a from Temuka, and all the doctors here refused to attend. A Dunedin patient is treated in a boardinghouse at a cost of about £10 a week.