NEGLECT TO NOTIFY.
DOCTOR FiNEQ THE MAXIMUM [BY TELEGRAPH. — OWN CORRESPONDENT.] HAMILTON, Friday. A charge laid against Douglas Martin, medical practitioner, of Ngaruawahia, of failing to notify a case of puerperal septicaemia was heard to-day. Defendant did not appear, but was represented by Mr. Noel Johnson, who pleaded guilty on his behalf. The duty of a doctor in regard to the matter was briefly referred to by Mr. Gillies. In the case in question he said the rise in the patient's temperature must have led Dr. Martin to suspect septicaemia. Knowing her duty the nurse had notified the department without reference to Dr. Martin. The magistrate, Mr. Wyvern Wilson, said he could not too seriously regard an offence of this nature. He was c,lad to say for the good name of the medical profession that prosecutions of the kind were rare. The bad feature of the case was that Dr. Martin had previously been _ convicted for a like offence. The maximum fine, £lO, was imposed.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19187, 28 November 1925, Page 13
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