Volume Eleven - Pre-Victorian to the Present Day - some more aspects - Random Rants, Notes and Articles No. 1 . . .

So complete is the impression he produces of being a proper medical man that one of the jurors said that he had lived in Penarth all his life and never knew till then that Graves was not a qualified medical man. The people who sent for him on this occasion thought so too. Yet the jury added to their verdict of "Death from natural causes" "that the nurse was to blame for not calling in a properly qualified man."

This seems scarcely fair till the law is so amended that such deception as is practised on a community shall be much more severely punished than it is. If we are not misinformed, this individual has been already successfully prosecuted three times, twice under the Apothecaries' Act and once under the Medical Act. - The Lancet [1189] [499] 6th October 1895.

1884 - Penarth was prospering and the rich came to our fine watering-place to spend their days in luxury at their mansions. The Bristol Mercury's Guide to Penarth [194] published the following comment on their class : -

"Might the weary merchant raise
His mansion where to end his days
And here regain that long-lost health
Spent 'mid the toils of heaping wealth."