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TIES.
SLIPPERS.
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or
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DRESSING GOWNS.
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SMOKING JACKETS & BATH GOWNS.
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Hair Brushes,
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Pocket Wallets.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPII.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1932.
DOCTOR'S RUSE WITH MEANS-TEST
BRENDA DEAN PAUL'
SALT AND WATER AS
A SLEEP DRUG
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Branda Dean I'aul's appeal against the sentence of six months' Imprisonment passed her on Oct. 3 for trying to obtain morphine was allowed at London Sessions..
court.
CHANGES
OFFICIAL TEXT OF RULES
New rules decided upon by the Cabinet for the guidance of Pablle Asalatauce Committees in operat Ing the Means Teat were reveale
na memorandum on the financial Iresolution which authorised tha fintroduction of the Bil.
She was bound over to come up for judgment if called upon and to
The proposed rules are that: remain in nursing home until liberated by order of the
Any wound or disability pension application for such liberation to takon into account shall be treated be supported by two doctors, one as if it were reduced by one-half; of whom must be Independent, of
Any weekly payment by way of the Home.
workmen's compensation shall be |treated as if it were reduced by
Mr. C. Humphreys, for the one-half; pollco, submitted that the prison sentence was a right one in view
All money and investments
of the fact that, as the reault of treated as capital assets shall the treatment In Holloway Prison, all such money and investments (1) In so far as the value of the girl's physical and mental con-considered in the aggregate does dition had greatly improved.
Neither Foes Nor Friends
"In brief," sald' counsel, she is in an institution where, as Kipling might have said, "Neither foes "nor loving friends can hurt." "
not exceed £26, be disregardod, and
(11) In so far as that value exceeds £25, but does not exceed £100, be treated an equivalent to a weekly income of is, for every comploté £25.
Dr. Morton, medical officer of Thus such money and invest Holloway Prison, said Brenda ments will not be taken into ac Paul was aullon and antagonistle count unless they amount to £50 when admitted. Later she made for more.
water,
Houses Safe
an application to his deputy with regard to drugs. As a result of subsequent reports of Balt and In taking into account the value to any person of any interest In the dwellig house in which ho resides, any sum which might be obtained by him by selling, or by borrowing money upon the securf ty of, that interest, shall be dis- regarded.
Counsel: What was the result? The Doctor: She slept well after that. I continued doing that for some little time. Then I told her that what she was having was only salt and water.
Thus it will not be lawful for a What did she think it was?-1 Pablle Assistance Authority to did not ask her.
reduce the determination of a need for transitional person's
She asked that the injections. even if they were sait and water, payments or to determine that he might be continued," added the merely because money could be is not in need of such payments, doctor. "We eventually stopped obtained by selling or mortgaging them, but last night, as she was the house in which he resides. very worried about to-day, and to ensure her sleeping, I did give her some bromide."
Nursing Homes: A Protest
pro-
The resolution further poses that the same rules should apply to the granting of outdoor relief under the Poor Law.
Mr. Humphreys asked whether it was easy in any nursing home except Holloway to make It would cure her more quickly and absolutely certain that a persona doctor with great experience should not get drugs,
gave her hyoscin-treatment (add-
Dr. Morlin: I believe that it ined Sir Henry) which was known as impossible in an ordinary nursing had the effect for a week, or pak "knock-out treatment, because it home to ensure that a patient willaibly more, of making the patient not get drugs.
unconscious, In that condition Sir Henry Curtis Bonnett (for the craving disappeared, Miss Paul): That is a very seri-wonderful cures had often been ous statement to make. A great effected.
and
number of doctors in charge of He submitted that when she nursing homes would protest should have appeared on remand against auch д statement very on Oct. 3 she was medically unft strongly indeed,
to do so, and he suggested that the sentence was passed upon her for failing to appear.
time
Sir Henry went on to say that when the charge was brought against Bresida Paul, and the magistrate remanded her, she went to a nursing home and was treated with belladonna,
He added that when the came for her to no out into the world Mrs. Plunkett-Greene VLA prepared to take her into the country for six months and look
She asked for something which after her.
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