"She glared at me as if I might have been-a criminal," added the witness, "She walked out making ne remark and no suggestion of apology and slamming the door."
Asked whether he could identity the L.C.C. inspector as the woman who called, the witnéas said. "I was too embarrassed to tak" any particular notice."
He also denied that he touched One of the assistants in an improper manner.
Mr. Hornby: Did you put your Lands on her shoulders and say that she was lovely?—No, I am afraid I was not so complimentary.
Miss "M;" an actress, asked when ther she objected to being seen walking along the corridor by male patients, replied that she did.
"Woman in and: Out"
Another scene in which the L.C.C. inspector was stated to have been involved was described by a solicitor patient referred to as Mr. "R" He said that, while he was having treatment one day, a woman came in without warning and walked out leaving the door wide open. She'did the same a few minutes later, "I complained to Mrs. Hunter-Lewis," he said, "and she told me that it was the Council's inspector amd that she cold" do what she liked.
"I said that that was nonsense. 'Supposing I was having a bath, could she walk in?' I asked, Mrs. Hunter-Lewis said that she could and that Was why there were no locks on the doors."
"Mr. Hornby, addressing the committee, said that he did not suggest that the woman inspector had told deliberate untruths, but he thought there was something in the manner in which she carried. out her duties which irritated people.
"She is a zealous servant of the Council, and she had to explain matters to her chief officer." he said, "Do you think Mrs. Hunter-Lewis is really the type of woman who would run an establishment of the type alleged? I must confess that when I was told of the allegations in this case, I expected a magnificent platinum blonde to walk -into my office, not a little, quiet, elderly Scots' woman, as she is."
After deliberating in private for 40 minutes,. Mr. John Cliff, the chairman. said that the committee had decided to revoke the licence.
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