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May 06, 1959 - 6-5-59 It was not a mercy killing says Dr. Millard. Put incurably ill 80 year old patient to sleep Fifty year old Dr. Maurice Millard of Leicester caused a sensation when he stated in a Rotary Club speech that he had put an incurably ill 80 year old patient to sleep, said yesterday that it was nonsense to call it a mercy killing. He said that all he did was to given her a drug to put her to sleep and to keep her asleep until she died. Dr. Millard is a member of the Euthanasia Society, founded by his father who was a medical officer for Leicester. Keystone Photo Shows: Dr. Maurice Millard who says it was not a mercy killing
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