MAN FACES CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19201, 15 October 1930, Page 7

MAN FACES CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER

SAID TO HAVE TREATED DIABETIC PATIENTS. Per Press Association. NEW PLYMOUTH. October 13. The charge of manslaughter against Abraham Wallv Mahomed Salaman was continued this morning. A witness gave evidence that hi daughter, aged fourteen years, suffered diabetes and had been treated with insulin since she was nine years of age. He took her to Salaman. who said that she had a tendency to dropsy. He advised a change of diet and the discontinuance of the insulin treatment, and provided medicine. The child was taken to Salaman on Tuesday, and the insulin was discontinued on Wednesday morning. The child fell into a state of coma on Friday and was taken to hospital in the evening She was given insulin every hour and recovered. It was a case of touch and go. Witness’s wife paid for the medicine. Evidence was gi\*en by diabetic patients as to the alleged system of treatment by Salaman in connection with his business. Expert medical evidence was given by Hr J. S. Church, who was present at the post mortem examination on the body of Roy Christie, conducted by Dr Taylor. The condition of the boy on the morning of the day he died, as described by the boy’s sister, sug gested to witness the oncoming of cx>ma. Jf witness had been called to the boy on that morning and found him in that condition he would have considered it a case of grave emergency and one for immense doses ot insulin. Witness, after explaining the discovery and use of insulin, stated that the highest authorities w*ere now of opinion that no child should die of diabetic coma. (Proceeding.)