PANIC OR CALLOUSNESS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17007, 14 November 1918, Page 4

PANIC OR CALLOUSNESS.

EPIDEMIC EXPERIENCES.

WORKERS' REVELATIONS.

Stories of almost unbelievable disregard for the sufferings of others were related yesterday by voluntary workers of the epidemio organisations. One case was that in which a woman in great distress, herself ill, and unable to attend to a dying husband and Bick family, Bought the use of a neighbour's telephone to ring up a doctor. It was refused. She pleaded with three others, hastening from house to house, but none would allow her inside tho door. At last she reached one family sufficiently Christian to allow her to call for help, but it came too late. Tales such as this can be repeated over and over again. Nurses and other helpers tell of the refusal of motor-car owners to take therr* in their cars when going the same way and no tram is available, and, in consequence, they have had to trudgu long distances, ofter. with heavy oaskets of food. "Panic could not mors violently have seized some people, who have allowed a morbid fear to overcome every trace of oommon-sense and human sympathy," said a worker.