The Sun.
London, England, 1825-08-25 00:00:00

ST. GEORGE'S HOSPITAL.

Yesterday a Board of Governors was held at
the above Hospital to transact the ordinary business of the esta-
blishment, but more particularly to investigate the conduct of
the nurse Armstrong, belonging to the Hospital, towards a
patient, named Daniel Taylor, who died from an injury in his
hand, by being thrown from his horse, and upon whom the
Coroner's Inquest sat on Saturday evening, at the Turf Tap,
in Grosvenor-place, the proceedings of which were fully re.
ported in our paper of-Tuesday.
At twelve o'clock there were upwards of thirty Governors
present, and the Rev. Mr. Maims was unanimously called
to the Chair.

The Rev. Chairman (after alluding to the object of their
meeting, as far as regarded one of die nurses of the esta-
blishment, against whom some misconduct was alleged to-
wards a man named Taylor, who died in the Hospital), read
a letter which he had 'received that morning from Ali.
the Coroner, which that gentleman had ,writtea by the de-
sire of the Jury who sat on the body of the deceased, wherein
they expressed their unanimous opinion 4hat great blame
was attributed to the nurse Armstrong, and expressing their
decided conviction that she ought no longer to remain in her
situation.

A Newspaper of Tuesday last, containing the report of the
Coroner's Inquisition, was here read, after which,
Mr. Keats, the surgeon under whom the deceased man was
placed when first brought into the Hospital, was called in and
examined. He stated that he gave particular instructions to
the nurse to keep the deceased man quiet, and by no means to
Permit him to leave his bed. However, he had contrived to
leaVe the establishment tintdred, at the instigation of a man
who was a frequent visitor to him, and a woman named Taylor,
who stated herself to he his wife. About a week after lie was
seen in the streets with his hand in a sling, and from his wrist
to his shoulder his arm was dreadfully inflamed, and be was
again admitted into the Hospital. Mr. Keats said he had also
given orders that his poultice should not be taken off' till he
(Mr. Keats) gave such instructions. He considered that if the
Jury had returned a verdict against the woman Taylor, they
would have done right; for he had no doubt, had she not per-
suaded him to leave the Hospital at the time, the fatal conse-
quences might not have ensued.
The nurse (Armstrong) was then called in, and denied hav-
ing made use of any harsh expressions to the deceased, or to
any other patient an the ward. She had certainly told the
woman Taylor, that she should not come into the Hospital,
for her having induced the patient to leave the establishment.
The deceased was in the habit of taking the poultice from his
hand to show the wound to different persons that visited him.
Jones, the beadle of St. George's, Hanover-square, was also
examined, but he merely spoke to having heard the nurse and
the woman Taylor quarrelling several times ;n the ward re-
specting her (Taylor) advising the patient to run away from the
Hospital.
The CHAIRMAN said, that it was his opinion that before the
Board could proceed any further, it would be necessary that
they should have the depositions of the witnesses taken by the
Coroner before them.

In this the meeting acquiesced, and the following resolution
was agreed to :—" That two gentlemen should be appointed to
communicate with the Coroner, as it was the opinion of the
Board that the verdict returned was not in accordance with the
testimony that was produced before the Jury."—The inquiry
then adjoured at two o'clock till a future day.