ROYAL COMMISSION BEGINS INQUIRIES.
MELBOURNE, Saturday.
The Greenvale Sanatorium was visited yesterday by a Royal Commission of inquiry in connection with allegations concerning the food and clothing supply of the institution and evidence was taken from a large number of witnesses.
Frances Hodgins, matron since 1912, when questioned, said that the quantity of clothes, valued about £100, had been sent to the institution by T. Gunnersen, for the use of the patients. When they arrived Dr. Brown inspected them, and said that many were unsuitable for the patients. He tried on some coats and hats, and then said he would take charge of them. The clothes were taken into his house. Witness did not know what happened to them after that. The only article she ever saw again was an oilskin coat, worn by Mrs. Brown.
Beatrice Gray, a nurse, declared that during the first fortnight in March last, Nurse Campbell twice instructed witness to being her water, which was to be put into the milk. On another occasion Campbell told witness to water the milk herself, and witness did so.
Source: Daily Standard (Brisbane, Qld); Sat 31 August 1918 (Page 6)
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