CLAIM FROM HOSPITAL
PATIENT AWARDED DAMAGES [by TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] CHRISTCHURCH, Tuesday Damages amounting to £l6O have been awarded to Mrs. Caroline Thomas, who claimed £J3OO from the North Canterbury Hospital Board. Mrs. Thomas claimed that when she was a patient in the Christchurch Hospital she was severely burned through a hot-water bottle being placed on her thigh while she was unconscious. The board had paid £IOO into Court.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22543, 7 October 1936, Page 15
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69CLAIM FROM HOSPITAL New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22543, 7 October 1936, Page 15
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