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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1932.

DOCTOR'S RUSE WITH MEANS-TEST

BRENDA DEAN. PAUL

SALT AND WATER AS A SLEEP. DRUG

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OFFICIAL TEXT OF RULES

Brenda Dean Paul'a appen! New rules decided upon by the against the sentonce of six mouths' imprisonment passed on Assistance Committees in operat Cabinet for the guidance of Public her on Oct. 3 for trying to obtaining the Means Test were revealed morphing was allowed at London

a memorandum on the financial Sesalons.

Iresolution which authorised the She was bound over to come up¡introduction of the Bil, for judgment if called upon and to

The proposed rules are that: remain in a nursing home until Any wound or disability pension liberated by order of the court. taken into account shall be treated application for such liberation to

be supported by two doctors, one as if it were reduced by one-half;

of whom must be independent of the Home.

Mr. C. Humphreys, for the police, submitted that the prison) sentence was a right one in view of the fact that, as the result of the treatment in Holloway Prison, the girl's physical and mental con- dition had greatly improved.

Neither Foes Nor Friends "In brief," said counsel, "she is In an institution where, as-Kipling might have said, "Neither foes [nor loving friends can hurt.""

Dr. Morton, medical officer of

Any weekly payment by way of workmen's compensation shall be treated as if it were reduced by one-half;

treated as capital assets shall

All money and investments

ail auch money and investments (1) so far as the value of considered in the aggregate does not exceed £25, be disregardoð, and

(1) In so far as that value excoeds £26, but does not exceed £300, be treated as equivalent to a weekly income of 18 for every complete £25.

Thus such money and invest-

Holloway Prison, said Brenda ments will not be taken into ae- Paul was sullen and antagonistic count unless they amount to £50 when admitted. Later she made for more.

water.

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an application to his deputy with regard to drugs. As a result of subsequent reporta of salt and In taking into account the valuv to any person of any interest in the dwellig house in which he resides, any sum which might be obtained by him by selling, or by borrowing money upon the securi- ty of, that interest, shall be dis- regarded.

Counsel: Wint 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 What did she think it was?-Public Assistance Authority to idid not ask her.

reduce the determination of a Beed for transitional

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"She asked that the injections, person's even if they were salt and water, payments or to determine that he night be continued," added the is not in need of such payments, merely because money could be "We eventually stopped obtained by selling or mortgaging then, but last night, as she was the house in which he resides. very worried about to-day, und to ensure her sleeping, I did give her some bromide,"

Nursing Homes: A Protest

Mr. Humphreys asked whether it was easy in any nursing home except Holloway. to make it absolutely certain that a person should not get drugs.

pro-

The resolution further puses that the same rules should apply to the granting of outdoor rétier under the Poor Law.

would cure her more quickly and a doctor with great experience gave her hyoscla-trentment (add- Dr. Afortin: I believe that it is "knock-out" treatment, because it ed Sir Henry) which was known as impossible in un ordinary nursing had the effect for a week, or non- home to ensure that a patient will sibly more, of making the patient not get drugs,

[unconscious. In that condition

disappeared; Sir Henry Curtis Bennett (for the craving Miss Paul): That is a very seri-wonderful cures had often been sus statement to make. A great effected. number of doctors in charge of

He submitted that when she nuralng homes would protest

should have appeared on remand against such a statement very on Oct. 3 she was medically unst strongly Indeed.

to do so, and he suggested that the sentence was passed upon her for failing to appear.

Sir Henry went on to say that when the charge was brought Against Brenda Paul, and the magistrate remanded her. she Went to a nursing home and was treated with belladonna.

She asked for something which

and

He added that when the time came for her to go out into the world Mrs. Plunkett-Greene WAN prepared to take her into the country for six months and look after her.

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