ALLEGATIONS OF CRUELTY.

Waipa Post, Volume XXI, Issue 1282, 17 August 1922, Page 7

ALLEGATIONS OF CRUELTY.

ASTOUNDIING REVELATIONS

Astounding allegations of cruelty on the part of the administration of the Neglected Children's Department in Melbourne have been made to the Victorian Chief Secretary by nurses of the department (says our Sydney correspondent). It was alleged that three inmates, aged 35 years, 16 years, and 12 years, had been beaten. In the first case the woman wa& tripped and beaten on the back. Another grave offence was that dying children were carted to hospitals! by attendants, when a cab was 1 available at the premises. Testimony was given by three nurstes, who declared that in the past children were punished unjustly. A child' of 11, it was alleged, had never recovered from a terrible beating. It was declared that a child who had dropped -an egg was thrashed so harshly that she had great black weals under her hipst Another nurse asserted that while she was at the home the inmates were punished to a degree which, she believed, did not exist anywhere else under the British flag.