EPIDEMIC "MEDICINE."
CKAMPAGE AND WHISKY. [BY TELEGRArE.OWN CORRESPONDENT ] HAMILTON. Friday. An. account for £6 3s, for champagne, whisky, wine, stout and soda water supplied to an epidemic patient at Cambridge was received by the Waikato Hospital Board from the Cambridge branch of th« Patriotic Association yesterday. When th» account was read, Mr. G. Dickenson said the patient was a soldier from the Te Miro settlement, who had influenza and was removed to the temporary hospital. When the hospital was closed a private individual took charge of him without receiving any payment, and the liquor was supplied on the doctor's orders. Members thought that if the board paid tho account! it would bo equivalent to granting charitable aid, and it was decided to forward the account to the Returned Soldiers 1 Association, . '
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17139, 19 April 1919, Page 8
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