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PUBLIC INQUIRY
Royal South Sydney Hospital
DOCTORS’ CONDUCT: ADMISSION OF HORSEPLAY
An admission that there had been horseplay among certain of the doctors at the Royal South Sydney Hospital on the night of February 21, and that bedding had been damaged, was made by counsel for the former resident medical superintendent (Dr. E. J. Ryan) at a Hospitals Commission Inquiry which began yesterday, The president of the hospital (Sir Joynton Smith) said, in evidence, that Dr. Ryan had admitted to him that he and two doctors had been “making whoopee”.
The Sydney Morning Herald, 1933
“For pity’s sake, Clyde!” Rowland was exasperated. “I only hired her again for your sake… you could at least have spoken to her.”
“I know. I just… she’s coming back, isn’t she?”
“Yes.” Rowland groaned. He fe
