MATRON’S LAPSES
EVIDENCE OF DOCTORS Stated to be suffering from epilepsy and liable to do things of which she was not conscious, a matron in a London nursing home was ordered by the Marylebone magistrate not to resume her job until she had been certified fit by a doctor. The matron, Miss Hannah Graham Wylie, aged 37, pleaded guilty to charges of embezzling sums of money amounting to about £4B, and to stealing a gold cigarette case belonging to her employer, Miss Elizabeth Fulcher. Two doctors gave evidence that Miss Wylie was liable to periods of automatism, which might last for hours or a couple of months. The magistrate remarked that he had listened to the doctors, and he had also been impressed by the fact that the matron had used the stolen cigarette case in the nurses’ home while there was a hue and cry for it.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21210, 3 December 1938, Page 6
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148MATRON’S LAPSES Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21210, 3 December 1938, Page 6
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