HOSPITAL ACCIDENT
SLIP ON POLISHED FLOOR CLAIM FOR DAMAGES FAILS [by TELEGRAPH rRESS ASSOCIATION*] WELLINGTON, Wednesday An unusual mishap in the Wellington Hospital in November last was the basis of a claim for £1212 19s 6d made in tho Supreme Court to-day by Cecil Navlor Palmer, motor . mechanic, against the "Wellington Hospital Board. While attending the hospital as an out-patient tho plaintiff slipped on a polished floor and injured his left thigh, for a previous fracture of which he had come to receive treatment. The jury brought in a verdict for the board "We are all agreed that it was just an unfortunate accident," said the foreman.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22805, 12 August 1937, Page 14
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