ANGRY NURSES.

Waikato Times, Volume 116, Issue 19460, 27 December 1934, Page 3

ANGRY NURSES.

' MAN DUCKED IN TUB. ATTACK DESCRIBED AS BRUTAL. Pouncing on him while he was having tea, 10 angry young nurses at Echuca District Hospital tied a man up, carried him to the bathroom, and idium'ped him, 'fully clothed, in a tub of water, says a Melbourne paper. They claim justification for their action, hut the victim, Thomas Adams, yardsman at the hospital, demands redress from the Hospital Hoard. “ He struggled, so was tied up and treated as just another refractory patient-well, less gently, perhaps,” said a spokeswoman for the nurses. “ Wc held him under the water just long enough to say we’d 'seen him in the bath,” she added. The Victim’s Story. Adams said afterwards 'that if the nurses believed they had a grievance there was a proper method of recording their complaint, and it was not putting him in a bath full of uneomPorlably hot water. Ho declined to comment on a statement that the nurses thought he had been carrying petty tales lo the hospital authorities. “All I’ll say at present,” be said, “is that since the nurses took the law into their own hands they must now ■be prepared lo take the consequences, for if the Hospital Hoard does not do anything for me 1 intend to proceed on summons against every sister and every nurse concerned, in the affair.” Heavy Shackles. Adams said that as soon as lie was seized he saw the nurses with shackles similar lo those used in the male ward. They consisted of four or five links of chain, and a length of rope attached to each. Willi those they secured his ankles and dragged him to the intermediate block, where he was dumped into the hot hath. 'l’he nurses ran from Mm room and left him bruised and. scratched from the. rough handling. “ II was a brutal attack," he added, “particularly as 1 only resumed duty three weeks ago, after an illness."