The Archive · 1928

Off with Her Head

May 3.

The rapidity with which the Victoria Nursing Home has been arraigned, tried, found guilty and sentenced ' to execution, takes one's breath away. Three days ago not one person in a hundred knew that it was even under suspicion. Then came the ukase of Notification No.

3722—by what right or authority issued, nobody knows: "tremble and obey!"—that no more surgical and medical cases are to be taken after May 15; the same day @ brief debate, and a re~ commendation to the Council to sell the whole property. The only parallel for such procedure that we can think of is "the Queen in Alice in Wonder-among the gueste at her croquet

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