A HOSPITAL SCANDAL.

Inangahua Times, Issue 19, 2 October 1878, Page 2

A HOSPITAL SCANDAL.

A liorriblo rumor lms boon circuit! rod with respect to the trentnicnt of tlio dead in tlio Itobnrt Town Jtospitnl, wliioli in Riven ns follows liy llio Mercury :-— ' It is said tlmt the bodies of two pnlients who Imd died in tlio hospital have di.s:ippenrod iiftor having boon dissovorod, and tlio pieces placed in tubs Mco so mucli butoljcr's meat ; that Hvc or six bodies

of patisnti dyinsf in tho hospital lie piled above each other in ono grave, and that fiomo of tho bodies were place I in coffins without a stitch of Rravo clothe or other coveriae on them, and that tho burial is that of doRS.' Tho rumor coming to the knowledge of tho Government, tho C lonial Secretary instruotod an officor to make inquiries as to tho burials of tho two men roferrod to. nnd Iho results of his investigations arc such 1 that Iho hospital board bavo boon addressed with a request that Iho allegations tnado in tho roport should rceoivo 4 immodiato and soarching' inquiry. Tho purpoit of tho officer's roport ia that ono of tha men rof«rrcd to wan not buried without mutilation, and that no trnoo could bo found of tho remains of tho othor whoro ho was supposed to havo boon buriod. It was added that a woman wns found in ono of tho graves which was opened, coffined in a perfectly nudo Rtato. Such at present is tho dovelopmont of tho hospital scand.L