THE DUNEDIN HOSPITAL TRUSTEES.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 3625, 22 August 1901, Page 3

THE DUNEDIN HOSPITAL TRUSTEES.

Per Press Association. BUNEDIN, August 21. At a meeting of the Dunedin Hospital Trustees, the remarks made by Mr Thomas Mackenzie, M.H.R., respecting the alleged ill-treatment of a patient by the nurses in Dunedin Hospital was referred to, and on the motion of the chairman it was resolved that the Government be asked respectfully but firmly to set up a Magisterial inquiry into the statements made by Mr T. Mackenzie, and that that gentleman be asked to' be present or repre-. sented. The Trustees expressed indignation at the attack on a defenceless nurse, and there, were many hard things said of Mr Mackenzie. The chairman said that if as stated the patient was slapped on the face by a nurse, other patients must ( have seen it. He had received telegrams from patients who were in the ward at the. time, all expressing their readiness to give evidence to refute the charges. When Mr Mackenzie had flared up in the ward it was suggested, that he should see the house surgeon, but he said that he was too busy. The chairman denied that the patient referred to was too weak to be removed. It was five weeks before his death, and he could have been taken to any part of the colony.