And the next morning told the hospital authorities in full exactly what had happened.

The woman identified herself to hospital authorities as the wife of the man who had been shot, the police said.

No one was in the room with him at the time of the accident, hospital authorities said.

Neither he nor the hospital authorities knew anything whatever about the woman.

Five people were described by hospital authorities as in a critical condition.

So he went to the hospital authorities to get approval for a garden.

It was also one which, in all the circumstances, should have been taken by the hospital authorities themselves on the Monday.

In neither case were the local hospital authorities able to say what sort of ammunition was used.

His first salvo also took down the city's hospital authority.

Perhaps the hospital authorities were right in not allowing visitors.