PRIVATE ASYLUM SCANDALS.
LONDON DOCTOR- PROSECUTED
ALLEGED ILL-USAGE OF
PATIENTS
[INDEPENDENT PRESS CABLE] LONDON. April 1.. Dr Henry Hamilton, of Barnes, in the outskirts of London, was summoned to-day at the instance of the Commissioners of Lunacy for having ill-treated two .women of weak intellect. . . A nurse at the private asylum in which the offence was alleged to have been committed gave evidcnco that ono of the women ran away, but was recaptured. After sho bad been brought back to tlio institution the doctor ordered the nurses to take her to a bedroom and undress her. then when sho was naked the defendant made the nurses hold the patient face downwards on the bed while ho thrash her back and legs wun a leather razor strop. "Witness further related that on another occasion a second patient was being forcibly fed, when the doctor punched her in the abdomen. He had frequently struck patients on the Another nurse told how, /on two occasion, she had seen a patient lying face downwards on a bed, with her clothes turned back, and the doctor hitting her with a canvas shoo. The further hearing of tlio case was adjourned. ____
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 3802, 12 April 1913, Page 7
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195PRIVATE ASYLUM SCANDALS. Gisborne Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 3802, 12 April 1913, Page 7
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