CHARITABLE AID AFFAIRS.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1507, 17 January 1901, Page 58

CHARITABLE AID AFFAIRS.

-SUPPOSED CASE- OF LEPROSY. CHRISTCHURCH, January 9, At a meeting of the Charitable Aid Board to-day correspondence from Drs Clayton (the board’s medical officer) Trengley and Byrnes revealed a terrible case—a female in the city supposed to be suffering from leprosy. The chaiiman stated that the case had been under the Board’s relief for some years at an annual cost of <£6o, but there wa3 now a suspicion of leprosy. He had directed the attention ox ,fhe Hospital authorities to the case, but admittance was refused. Drs Clayton and Byrnes diagnosed the case as lupoid ulceration and lupus of a very virulent foiun. The woman in in a terrible condition. The matter is to be laid before Dr Mason, the Government Health Officer. At a rneetiag of the Charitable Aid Board to-day Dr Clayton (the board’s medical officer)" complained of the difficulty of gelting cases into the hospital. He cited the case of an inmate of one of the board’s homes, who'had dislocated a hip, and whose removal to the hospital he ordered. The patient, an old woman, was not removed and died in the home. It was decided to send Dr Clayton’s letter to the Hospital Board with a request for an explanation.