Basil v. Butterworth Hospital

On February 20, 1930, plaintiff, an employee in the cafeteria of defendant hospital, became ill while on duty, and was sent home after an examination by an interne. Four days later her ailment was diagnosed as scarlet fever and she was sent to Isolation Hospital. She suffered total disability for a long period after her return home, and is still partially disabled with a condition known' as septicopyemia, a disease following scarlet fever, and acute arthritis. Plaintiff claims that she contracted scarlet fever from Miss Brake, a student nurse with whom she came in contact in the course of her…