THE KELVIN REPORT.
COMPLAINT BY CHAIRMAN.
MINISTER IN REPLY.
By Telegraph.—Press Association. C WELLINGTON, Tuesday.
Approached to-day regarding the Auckland Press Association message to the effect, thai the chairman of the Kelvin Hospital Commission, Mr F. Earl. K. 0., took strong exception to his criticisms of the commission's report, the Minister for Health, Sir Maui Pomarc characterised as "too absurd for anything" the suggestion that the report had boon hold back in order thai (he chief recommendations of the commission could be put in force before it was published.
"As a matte,, of fact," said the Minister, "the report was submitted to the Cabinet in the ordinary course, and I could no! possibly publish if until it had come back from the Cabinet. I certainly did say 'I am indignant that the failure to notify was glossed over in the report the failure of the doctors in th erenort the failure of the doctors f.o notify the cause of puerperal sepsis. They never laid any stress on it, .That was the trouble."
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Waikato Times, Volume 97, Issue 15998, 28 May 1924, Page 4
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