PATIENT RUNS AWAY
DOES NOT WANT A BATH "I suggest that they catch him unaware," said the chairman, Mr. 11. 11. Mawley, at a meeting of the Wairarapa Hospital Board, when his attention was drawn to a paragraph in the report of the matron of the Greytown Hospital, reading as follows:- "A. Buchanan Ward patient is causing worry, as he frequently runs away when his weekly bath day comes and also refuses to be sponged in bed. He says that a doctor told him 30 years ago that he was not to have a bath." The managing-secretary, Mr. N. Lee: lie runs away every week. Every time 1 go to Greytown he asks me if he needs to have a hath. He oven raine up to Masterton once to ask a doctor about it.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19759, 13 October 1938, Page 7
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