MATERNITY HOME INQUIRY.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16370, 1 March 1924, Page 3

MATERNITY HOME INQUIRY.

(Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day

At 1 1 (<■ maternity home, inquiry, Randolph Da ere said that he did not tell Dr. Hughes he laid nothing against the hospital or matron, only against the doctors who said his wife suffered front infection before- she entered the hospital. Dr. Hughes (re-called) said that Dacre spoke to hint of taking action against the doctors who were in attendance on his wife for saying she had been infected prior to going to Kelvin.

The chairman remarked that, this statement .Hounded rather ridiculous. A letter from l)r. Hughes to Ur. Williams was read, acknowledging notification of Mrs, Dacrc’s death on (A:tuber 10, adding: ''From your history of the case, it is certainly suggestive of trouble prim- to eonliiiemont. It does not. appear necessary to take any action by the Department, as in cases of sept ica.-rnu-n. ”

Mrs. Rhodes, mother of Mrs. Detain ore, was a witness at the inquiry. She aid her daughter had told her that she had mi the Sunday oil which her baby was born mashed potatoes, turnips, an I gravy and pudding, api| for tea bread, butter, jam. and tinned salmon.. Tim chairman: This is extraordinary diet.

Witness said that her daughter seemed well and bright, after the confinement. The same evening she was seriosuly ill. Witness insisted on another doctor being consulted. Dr. ibill was called. He told her that her daughter was seriously ill—lie would not say dangerously, Subsequently Dr, Bull said: “Wo do know what is the matter with her. It is puerperal septicaeniea.” She inferred that he had got into trouble at the hospital for telling her Hn> truth. Witness declarer) that tlierp were no proper facilities for nursin'.' her <biu n liter at Kelvin.