MASSEUR’S CLAIM

Taranaki Daily News, 11 September 1935, Page 11

MASSEUR’S CLAIM

JUDGMENT.IN HIS.FAVOUR. GAVE TREATMENT ASKED FOR. Holding that.treatment.had been given as asked for and that no negligence had been proved the magistrate, Mr. W. H. Woodward; gave ' reserved ’ judgment in the magistrate’s court t New.. Plymouth y esterday for Clifford H. Long, masseur, New Plymouth,, in:his claim ■ against V. R. Simonsen, car painter, New Plymouth. The amount claimed was £39 5s for services rendered and . i ttendances as a masseur on Simonsen’s • wife., •■. Costs totalling'£lo' 17s were allowed. Tire ’..case was■ heard last week, when Mr. P. Grey appeared for Long and Mr. W. ? Middleton represented Simonsen. v The\defence,' said the • magistrate in giving judgment, was that' in addition to massage and electrical treatment Long had-prescribed medicine and other treatment,?. thereby, disqualifying himself from suing for fees, as he w-as not a registered medical practitioner. Long, however, did" not. profess >to have made a diagnosis, having tried only: to give relief. The patient had an aversion to doctors’ and had asked, for? his special treatment. . • . ■ • ' Regarding the.. legations of negligence, that had not been shown. ’.Long gave the specialised treatm'" ’' for which he was asked and, said the magistrate, he accepted the evidence that.far from dissuading his patient from seeing a doctor he suggested she. should do so.