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Monthly Archives: September 2014
“My mother loved children. She didn’t care how many she had as long as we were all healthy”
Reunion for descendants of Holt Williamson family of 19
Williamson family reunion. Picture: Ian Burt
Sabah Meddings Monday, September 8, 2014
Their descendants are now scattered across the world, but the 19 children of Maud and Albert Williamson were all brought up in a little two bedroom cottage off Letheringsett Hill, in Holt
A lot of children in one house
Raising more than a dozen children in one house took a lot of organisation, and Joyce Milce said she remembered her brothers sleeping top-to-tail, six in one bed.
Great-grandmother with Parkinson’s repeatedly left lying semi-naked in soiled bedding by carers in weeks before her death
By Jennifer Newton for MailOnline
Published: 12:41, 6 September 2014 | Updated: 16:39, 6 September 2014
Doris Paver, who is said to have died in squalid conditions at St James’s Hospital in Leeds after staff failed to monitor her care
- Staff at St James’s Hospital failed to monitor the care given to Doris Paver
- Claimed she was stripped of dignity and left semi-naked in soiled bedding
- Concerns also raised about her feeding tube and failure to control her pain
- The 79-year-old also developed pressure ulcers and bed sores
- Family have been awarded a four-figure pay out after consulting solicitors
- Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust say they hope to learn from their failures
A great grandmother who suffered from Parkinson’s disease was repeatedly left semi-naked in soiled bedding by hospital carers in the weeks leading up to her death.
