SERIOUS ALLEGATIONS.
TREATMENT OF AFFLICTED.
KEW MENTAL HOSPITAL CASE.
A. and N.Z.
MELBOURNE. Nov. 8.
Remarkable evidence was given before the Royal Commission which is inquiring into allegations by rnnmbers of the staff of the Kew Mental Hospital against a junior medical officer. The latter is charged with maladministration and cruelty to patients.
One of the nurses stated in evidence that this doctor extracted patients' teeth in the open air without anaesthetics or other necessary precautions for the sake of obtaining dental experience, and that he also experimented upon unwilling patients in order to demonstrate to the nurses the use of surgical instruments.
Another nurse said that hypodermic injections were given to patients as a punishment, not as a sedative, because they were "naughty." Patients afterwards complained of sickness and soreness. Witness declared that both nurses and patients wero afraid of the doctor.
Other allegations involved are:—Bringing liquor into the asylum, removing the fence dividing male and female patients, want of proper cleanliness, insufficiency of clothing, cruelty in forcing patients to bathe in tho open air in wintry weather, and telling indecent stories to nurses.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18862, 10 November 1924, Page 7
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