A doctor denied at an inquest at Kingston on Dec. 17 that he told a woman's husband that she was "shamming and fooling." The woman, Mrs, Matilda Florence Bulport, 46, of Braemar-avenue, Wimbledon Park, died in Kingston and District Hospital, states the "Daily Telegraph and Morning Pos William Bulport said that his wife was taken ill on Saturday, Dec. 11, and went into hospital on Sunday morning. At the hospital Dr. G. F. Jones, the assistant medical officer, Said: "Your wife is shamming. She has fooled you and the doctors. She will not keep still for an examination, and we e given her something to quieten her."
The next day his wife wanled to leave the hospital and said that she had been insulted, She told him that Dr. Jones had said in front of all the patients that she had been shamming and fooling.
Mr. Bulport said he left the telephone number of his own office and that of a friend's office at the hospital. At 1.20 p.m, on Monday he was given a message which did not come directly io him but had been received by a man by whom he had been employed 16 years ago. He went to the hospital and found that his wife would not consent to an operation. He tried to persuade her, but it was too late.
Dr. Gwyn Frdncis Jones stated that he tried to examine Mrs, Bulport, but she was moving about too much for him to do so. He tried to pacify her without success.
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