THE, WILLESDEN CASE

Waikato Times, Volume 100, Issue 16817, 8 June 1926, Page 6

THE, WILLESDEN CASE

CHARGES DISMISSED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Monday. In delivering his reserved judgment this afternoon, and dismissing the five charges laid recently by the Health Department against Nurse F. E. Fiillerton-Whylc, licensee of the "Willesden" private hospital, Mr F. K. Hunt, S.M., made the following comment: "It is a great pity that the Department did not lay these informations earlier. The offences are alleged to have taken place between October 10 and 20, 1925, and almost six months were allowed to pass before the prosecutions were launched. In the meantime, the two persons who would be primarily responsible if the offences were proved, namely, Miss Leone Whytc and Nurse Charlesworth, have apparently left the Dominion. The defendant, Mrs FullertonWhylc, is the licensee of two private hospitals in Auckland, one known as

"Willesdcn," and the other as "Fencourt." The defendant, herself managed Fencourt, and Willesden was managed, with the approval of the Health Department, by defendant's step-daughter, Miss Leone Whyte, a qualified nurse, Nurse Charlesworth,also a qualified nurse, a probationer, and the usual domestic assistants. The hospitals arc about half a mile apart-