Tho "Lancet" has probed the custom of "visiting day" at the hospitals. The mud from the street and the careless neglect of a hundred homes are poured into the wards., and visitors are more generous than judicious and bring in all manner of deadly dainties. The record perhaps is held by the youthful couple who came to visit their firstborn in the incubator at St. Bartholomew's Hospital. For that baby they had brought a pork pie and an oranfl*.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14221, 11 June 1910, Page 2 (Supplement)
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79Page 2 Advertisements Column 4 Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14221, 11 June 1910, Page 2 (Supplement)
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