ANOTHER AUCKLAND SCANDAL.
SHOCKING NEGLIGENCE AT THE COST LEY HOME. (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Auckland, March 11. A young woman named Lydia Baker, who has suffered from brain disease and paralysis, and who died at Onehunga yesterday, was an inmate of the Costley Home, and it is stated on the authority of Dr Scott, who attended her after she was removed from the institution, that while there, owing to the want of proper appliances for treating her case, she developed bed sores, two of which on the hips were of such a depth as to expose the bone for three or four inohes. It is aho alleged that owing to the fact that the matron of the Home has no assistant she had to attend to this case and dress the girl’s wounds whilst she was in charge of a maternity case, which was in the Home at the same time, this being a breach of the recognised Jaw of medicine. An inquest on the body of the girl Baker is to bo held at Onehunga to-morrow.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 993, 13 March 1891, Page 26
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176ANOTHER AUCKLAND SCANDAL. New Zealand Mail, Issue 993, 13 March 1891, Page 26
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