A DOCTOR CENSURED.
(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Christchurch, August 4.
At an inquest on the body of an infant seven months old, named Florence Elizabeth Cook, ifc appeared that the child had died from suffocation induced by a had cold. Doctors Russell and Deamer both declined to attend. The latter was an old man, and said he was nearly dead himselE. Dr Russell „ ftTe ss his reason for not attending that he had been called to scores of such cases, and never wat paid his fee. Be had lately restored a child from drowning and had not even been thanked. Had the fee been offered him he would have attended, though he had not in this instance asked for his fee, as it was usual for medical men to do. The iury returned a verdict of death from natural causes, and added as a rider, “ That if Dr Russell had attended, in all probabilities tbe life of the child might have been saved, and Dr Russell’s conduct was deserving of the severest censure." One jury man dissented .from the rider.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 753, 6 August 1886, Page 30
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179A DOCTOR CENSURED. New Zealand Mail, Issue 753, 6 August 1886, Page 30
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