UNLICENSED HOSPITAL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20626, 26 July 1930, Page 14

UNLICENSED HOSPITAL.

MATERNITY NURSE FINED.

PREMISES AT OTOROIIANCA. [by telegraph.—own corukspondent.] HAMILTON. Fridny. A charge of conducting a private hospital, at Otorohanga, \viLliout a licence, was preferred against Mrs. S. G. Funncll in tho Hamilton Magistrate's Court to-day.

Ihe Crown solicitor, Mr. 11. T. Gillies, said the regulations requiied that a pi ivale hospital where thcie was more than one patient should he registered. The district health inspector had reported that ilrs- I'unncll s premises weic clean and tidv, hut the equipment was not sufficient for the number of patients treated. Mr. W. ,1. King said Mrs. Fun noli hn<i been a maternity nurse for about ten years and had dealt with over ZOO patients.

Jn imposing a fine of £5, with £3 13s costs, the magistrate, Mr. Wyvern Wilson, said the case was a serious one. The premises were not iri a fit stale and the septic conditions were unsatisfactory, ■while there were no sterilisation appliances Half-price I)uy >' Hr/tith ;>r:'l C.nntfh'v'n cn Monday I)',-',: ; J, ; t n, ShiUp. lie rally, tr.'l r*.-. Inirn] <'t\ »!'/;(•*. I.i , 'V i.-. J „ " Where t!n WhjV- .\l,c T •••-»/.'«." % : classic of the M'lOf:. li.t.t.-r vr $ ; cr llkiiai.d Oilice, A'.'kiav!, t,!,-■*. i W'oodH IrYf'O f ' ' ■" ? U'nrr I r v-; , An entertainment in a:d r,f /v ! turned .Soldiers' Asr-w-iafion'-t rr,rt funds will l, e R j V cn by the Victoria I-cague girls' committee jn the la-wH •Eady Hall on the evenings of Tuesday I aud Wednesday, August 5 and b. The Ju!y meeting „f ,| lp Auckland Ternt til!"'' " 11, , l "' K S " ci '-I•'.V "ill ho held :»tiS:;: o,,ku - sum,