REPLY TO DR THACKER.
WELLINGTON, thisday. Replying to Dr Thacker's criticism of the treatment of returned woundtid soldiers the Hon. Mr Russell states- that there is only one case m Dr Thk'cker's list- which concerned the Public Health Department, that of William ' Ahgrove. The Minister states that he wired to Dr Herbert, medical superintendent at Rotorua, for full particulars, anil, had received the following reply : "Statement absolutely untrue. Angrove* arrived on the evening of the 17th. ! He -was at once admitted and seen by an assistant, and told to attend my usual morning inspection of new patients next day. He did not appear. I am since informed that he returned to Auckland nexi. day. Every new patient is examined at. once, and starts treatment next morning. No patient is ever told m any circumstances to wait another day. As the m_n* went , off with his own and o*or • p^'pera'T have no record as to who sent hi**jj:" J
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/PBH19160125.2.12.30
Bibliographic details
Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13900, 25 January 1916, Page 3
Word Count
158REPLY TO DR THACKER. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13900, 25 January 1916, Page 3
Using This Item
The Gisborne Herald Company is the copyright owner for the Poverty Bay Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Gisborne Herald Company. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in