PATIENT LEAVES HOSPITAL
ISOLATION PERIOD EVADED AIDED BY HUSBAND (Per United Press Association) AUCKLAND, Oct. 14. For leaving the hospital while she was supposed to be in isolation suffering from scarlet fever, Edna Baldwin was convicted in the Police Court and ordered to come up for sentence if called on within three months. For aiding and abetting her, James Baldwin, her husband, was ordered to pay costs (10s). The police said the husband had applied to the medical superintendent for his wife to go home, but Dr Craven had refused permission until the isolation period had expired. Later, the woman was missing, and when a police sergeant visited her home her husband had denied knowledge of his wife’s whereabouts. He agreed to a search being made, and the wife was found hiding under a bed. She had been taken back to the hospital. Mr C. R. Orr Walker said that the woman had been sufficiently punished. Common sense should have shown her the danger of her action.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23631, 15 October 1938, Page 14
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