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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY,
JULY 27, 1936.
Widow of Tuberculosis Victim ALHAMBRA
Sues His Doctor
SAYS LACK OF SKILL
SHORTENED HER
HUSBAND'S LIFE
Allegation of Negligence Denied
Nallegation of negligence against vice, earning £1,000 a year. He was AN of treatment in the ancient, monument department
of a patient who died of tuberculosle [of the Omee of Works.
was made and denied in an action in the King's Bench Division month.
thin The first witness was Dr. II. N. Marrett, medical superintendent of the Merivalo Sanatorium, Sandon, near
Mrs. Margaret Connolly, of Argyle-Chelmsford square, London, sait Dr. Henry Homer Rubra, of Crouch Hall-rond, Orouch,
He gave evidence that when Mr.
End, N., claiming damages in respect Connolly was admitted to the sana- of the death of her husband, Mrtorium on June 9, 1933, he did not a suitable Matthew Connelly, alleging that the consider the patient was doctor falled to use due care and skill, case for admission.
The defence said that Mr. Connolly's death was not due to or necelerated by negligence or unskilfulness, both of which allegations were denied by the loctor.
To me it was obvious that t would be a matter of a few weeks before he died," said the doctor.
Cross-examined by Mr. Thomna Carthew, X. C. (for Dr. Rubm) Dr. Mr. C..S. Rewcastle, R.C, (for Mrs. Marrett agreed that nine days after Connolly), said that his client was the patient's admission he wrote to suing on her own behalf and on behalf Dr. Ruben: "He intends to get her two boys, aged 14 and 11. The better and is putting up a good fight. allegation against Dr. Rubea was that So far he is holding his own..... in consequence of the lack of skill and Pare with which he treated Mr. Com holly, the patient's life was shortenest.
Me. Connolly, died of tuberculosic in July 20, 1988.
He had been under the treatment of Dr. Rubra from time to time from December 1930, and during' parts of that period had been visited from day 小
to day.
SPECIALIST'S DIAGNOSIS
Mr. Carthew-For a time when he
Was with you, it seemed to justify
is admittance 7--- Yes,
Do you know that it WAN Lord Harder who recommended that ho should be sent to your sanatorium ?...-- Yes,
DRINK DENIAL
Mrs. Connally giving evidence, said that on February 3, 1935, her husband) left the oflee for the last time. Dr.
It was not until March, 1933, how-|Rubra diagnoser that he had influenza) ever, that tuberculosis
even und visited the house every day for provisionally suspected. It was dis-some time, covered then because Mr. Cannolly | was taken to a specialist.
The specialist made a dinguosis, of tuberculosis and the diagnosia was checked that day by X-ray.
Answering Mr. Rewenstle, Mrs. Connolly said that there was no truth is the suggestion, said to have been made by Dr. Rubra, in a letter, that she was addicted to drink.
The doctor never suggested to her
"I Killed Her"
Albert Walter Jr., 28, married wanderer from New York, walked intu A
San Francisco police station and calmly told amazed police," strangled a girl." He then let officers to a nearby apartment where the liedy of Blanche Cousins, 24-year-old
Idaho Falls, Idaho, nice, WAN found with a tightly knotted wilk stocking around her throat.
Japan's Surplus People
500,000 NEW JOBS ANNUALLY
New York, July 20. Mr. Kewcastle said that he thought
"Japan must provide nearly the judge would be satisfied from the that the house was ill-kept or dirty, half a million new jobs annually evidence that by that time the tuber-or that there was fond in the house for the next twenty years if she colonis had gone so far that the man that was decomposing; nor was this had really no chance of living.
true.
The trouble which made it hearable Mr. Bewcastle-is there any truth was that the primary tuberculosis of in the suggestion that your husband' the lungs had developed secondary brother said you had "killed your tuberculosis in the larynx,
Expert medical evidence would be called that even at that late hour, if there had only been the condition of the lungs, Mr. Connolly would have had a good chance of heing alive to-i day.
Wish une slight exception for tool Inte to be effective, he was treated for tuberculosis at any time.
never
husband?
is to make even a start towardi providing for her surplus popula tion," according to the Far East- ern Survey of the American Council, Institute of Pacific Rela-
Mrs. Connolly,No. I do not suptions. pose for a moment that he could say such a thing.
17-TON. FLYING
I was true that from June 9, 183. BOATS TOO BIG
until July 17, 1933-three days before! he MedMr. Connolly wax in # sanatorium, bai, said Mr. Rewcastle. he did not think anyone would sug gest that he was sent there to he
eured. He was sent there merely in
order that he might have such treat- ant as would make his end as com fortable as possible."
LORD HORDER"
FOR THE NILE
AFRICAN AIR ROUTE MAY BE CHANGED
Pointing out that by 1950 there will probably be ten million more bread-winners in Japan [than there were in 1930, Jeanette
Randolph, research associate, maintains that "Industrial de- velopment is the outstanding hope of the Japanese masses and anless industrial activity is in- Jereased the present national situation will become ever more precarions."
more
NATIONAL ECONOMY London,-July-15-Thure is a steadily growing feeling! CHANGES in the present stations in Japan, however, that the nottel It was common ground, continued schedule of the England-Egypte economy must be so adjusted as to Mr. Rewcastle, that Dr. Rubra, who South Africa sir route, when the ser- provide a vastly larger and had been the medical adviser to vice is accelerated rad multiplied secure market for Jagan's industrial Connelly's family since 1919 ndi always looked upon Mr. Comollyext year, are likely to be imposed output in the consuming power of the
by the greater size of the Empire Japanese people themselves," it as a delicate man of the "chest lying boats now being built for Em held. Territorial and colonial ex- type, and that notwithstanding that perial Airway, writes the Air Corpansion and the forcing of Japanese up to the time of going to the specia-respondent of the Daily Telegraph products upon an unwilling world are list, Fr. Rubra was content with the The new Dying boats, which will requiring an expenditure on diagausis of bronchitis and influenza,
17 tons, need more than
| STRATOSPHERE FLIGHT OF
weigh
is
arma-
ments which is beginning, to cat up
creation of
-
He did, on one pression in February, have Mr, Connolly's sputum tested and greater depth of water than those the whole national surplus above the obtained a negative result. That, at present in service, and it is fear-bare neersities.
"Firmly entrenched, on the other hand, is the belief that Japan's popt- counsel said he was instructed, was that some of the Nile stations my PREV unsuitable. The deep 1362 11).
water is not of sufficient area for a fation problem can be solved! unly Mr. Cangoliy who was 49, was a
through the highly-placed official in the Civil Seshi yine bont's take off rm.
Tubi, about 700 miles south of sufficient empire with all necessary Khartoum, will almest certainly have raw materials within itself and with to be missed by the new flying boats, foreign markets eered by trade This would not necessarily involve agreements and forced concessions. the abandonment of duba as a port This is in line with Japan's south- for "it ward advance and with her new o call on the main mute, could in served by smaller craft, but to spatematise the colonial ex- there might be a dialculty in the way ploitation of Formona. For this put- ATLANTICf an early fulfilment of the project. Pse the Formosan Colonial Company has been formed and a Japanese| specding-up of the service to
naval governor has beçu appointed for i South Africa.
Formesa, CLARENCE CHAMBER- Should it prove
Theow necessary,
new schedule, ever, to organise" a
WON'T GO ABROAD LIN'S "SIX HOURS" AIMissing
“ነን' altogether
the of present Nile stations, it would be "Although the Japanese government extremely unfortunate. The service has offered. strong inducements 10 is now fully established, and has emigrants to settle abroad, such lurts become a necessity to the business have proved insuficiently attractive. In 1833, n peak year for emigration; communities in East Africa,
ed
New York, July 15. Mr. Clarence Chamberlin, the pro- minent American aviator, when pass Ing through New York on h13 honey-
There is, of course, an alternative 27,000 Japanese left their country, but moon, disclosed his general plans for route, after Cairo, by way of the east some 14,400 retuned. For the five a stratosphere flight in which he be coast, with calls at Important ports year period 1920-30, Japan's net loss lleves he can span the Atlantic from from which feciler services" could be through emigration to foreign coun Newfoundland to Ireland in four to run westward to Khartoum, Juba and tries was less than 20,000. The popu six hours.
the lake, towns.
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lation growth during that interval was one of 4,700,000. Even after the Manchurian Incident of 1031 there was no general exodus of Japanesé to that country. In 1933 there were Iess than 250,000 Japanese in Man- churis. Despite the verbal promin ence accorded the question of Japan- | se emigration, the total number of Japanese living outside Japan Proper is less than 1,000,000.
•
530,000 Recruits For Italy
TO TAKE MORE
SOVIET ORPHANS
Moscow, July 1. His 'plane, named "Miss Strato-Thousands of homeless children In sphere," Is powered with a single the Soviet Union will be taken from
and placed motor and a three-bladed propeller) asylums
under the 11-feet in diameter, He believes that guardianship adopted by presidium at 35,000 feet he will beneft by tail of the Central Executive Committee. winds of 50 to 75 miles velocity, and Guardianship of children will be will be able to cover about 400 miles undertaken voluntarily, the foster URING the past five weeks an hour, and thinks the flight will parents being given monthly pay. Du
330,000 Italians have volunteered demonstrate the feasibility of strato-menta for support of their wards and for enrolment in the Italian militia, sphere flying for commercial aviation, collective farm families being given says Penter from Rome, and 778 bat-
miditional aid it purchasing live- talions will be formed. His bride expects to molte the trip stock and building houses. as part of the honeymoon, but Mr.
children for adoption range Chamberlin would only commit him- in age between 6 months and was about 300,000, self to the extent of saying, "If any years. Guardianship will end when
He is at the child reaches 10., one goes along, she will," present engaged in putting the plate Penalties are provided against per- Miss Jean Batten, the New Zealand through an extensive test, anying: sont undertaking the guardianship of air girl, has boon awarded the, gold "If there are any bugs in the ship it! a child for mercenary alme and medal of the French Academy of is better to find them over the land against those who neglect adopted Sports for her record crossing of tho Instead of over the ocean.'
chiklron.United Press.
The
Tic previous total of the militia.
4
South Atlantle last Novomber.
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