THE DUNE DIN HOSPITAL INQUIRY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 8354, 6 September 1890, Page 5

THE DUNE DIN HOSPITAL INQUIRY.

[by TELEORAPH. — association.] Donepin, Friday. The Hospital inquiry was continued to-day,

when Dr. Maunsell's

iination was

concluded. Mr. F. Chapman, at considerable length, opened in defence. He said that presumably Dr. Batchelor only raised the broader question when he said he could not sustain his first position. The defects in the Hospital the trustees admitted, and always had, but contended that Dr. Batchelor's charge was ill-judged, and made without the concurrence of the medical profession in Dunedin, many of whom were more experienced men than Dr. Batchelor. The evidence had already shown, and would in the end still more clearly show, that the attack made was entirely unjustified, grossly exaggerated, and calculated to prove disastrous in its results. The worst of this kind of attack was—and this was why it was likely to prove so mischievous in its result—that in almost all the items of the bill of complaints, or indictment, there was some measure of truth. These the trustees fully acknowledged, but comparing what was proved with what was asserted, brought a result very analogous to calling a man a convict, and supporting the assertion by proving that he was once convicted of letting his chimney catch fire, or speaking of a man as diseased, and proving it by showing that he suffered from a gumboil.