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13:56, 27 December 2021 diff hist +972‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk1MDI ‎ Created page with "[page 134] coming in together- commonly one of them wanted to use the bath tub; the attendant might be away, and he might use the bath tub Q. That was one of the inevitable th..."
13:48, 27 December 2021 diff hist +1,014‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk1MDE ‎ Created page with "[page 133] you? you could order them and they would obey you? A. Whenever it was found dirty they would clean it up. You misunderstood as to the question asked. He spole in re..."
13:40, 27 December 2021 diff hist +1,008‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk1MDA ‎ Created page with "[page 132] A. I dont know as the attendants could help it. Q. The attendants could not help it? A. No. Q. Did you endeavor to get them to help it? Could not you as the officer..."
16:42, 23 December 2021 diff hist +1,017‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk0OTk ‎ Created page with "[page 131] he was discharged? A. No, not particularly my sympathy. I dont run round after attendants any where. Q. As matter of fact were any people discharged there, or more..."
16:18, 23 December 2021 diff hist +886‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk0OTg ‎ Created page with "[page 130] and afterwards discharged? A. Yes,sir Q. Did he leave that employ? A. Left that employ; he was discharged. Q. Did you have interviews with Hodgkins- A. The same as..."
16:05, 23 December 2021 diff hist +881‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk0OTc ‎ Created page with "[page 129] that you thought a certain man who had been discharged, one man or another, had been discharged on insufficient grounds, that there was no need of discharging him?..."
15:41, 23 December 2021 diff hist +1,000‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk0OTY ‎ Created page with "[page 128] no occasion for him to do so. Q. Have you conversed with one and another of the attendants after they were discharged and told them you thought they ought to be ret..."
15:33, 23 December 2021 diff hist +966‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk0OTU ‎ Created page with "[page 127] stayed in their rooms when they should have been in the halls? A. Yes. He knew it. Q. How many of those were discharged? A. A very few; I could not say how many. No..."
15:29, 23 December 2021 diff hist +911‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk0OTQ ‎ Created page with "[page 126] and that man and the other man. Q. Is it time then, as matter of fact, that you reported nearly every man of the whole 40 or 50 individuals under your charge? A. I..."
15:24, 23 December 2021 diff hist +991‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk0OTM ‎ Created page with "[page 125] the supervisor was absent, for a little while until he could get back; not as a rule. Of course sometimes I have done so. I was not allowed by the superintendent to..."
15:19, 23 December 2021 diff hist +951‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk0OTI ‎ Created page with "[page 124] what I thought. I says, "there is no discipline here." And I had the same statement to make to Dr. Oaks just before I left. And I had no different one to make all t..."
15:14, 23 December 2021 diff hist +1,101‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk0OTE ‎ Created page with "[page 123] A. Sometimes they were. One or two were discharged on my report for some overt act. If I found a man abusing a patient in any way and I reported him to the Dr. I do..."
15:08, 23 December 2021 diff hist +971‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk0OTA ‎ Created page with "[page 122] to him. Q. Did you have rules in reference to the regulation of attendants? A. Yes, sir. Q. And as to what they should do? A. Yes, sir Q. Printed rules? A. Yes, sir..."
15:03, 23 December 2021 diff hist +1,022‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk0ODk ‎ Created page with "[page 121] might be more. Q. Now as I understand you, you at one time and another reported abut every one of those 40 or 50 to the superintendent for inefficiency? A. Yes sir...."
14:57, 23 December 2021 diff hist +1,013‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk0ODg ‎ Created page with "[page 120] Q. Then I suppose the individuals were changing more or less? A. Yes sir. Q. How long were you there? A. Five and a half years. Q. To give it approximately, how man..."
14:42, 23 December 2021 diff hist +933‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk0ODc ‎ Created page with "[page 119] A. I cannot tell; quite a number. Q. Cannot you give the committee some of the names so they can look into the matter for themselves. A. Yes, quite a number; the tw..."
14:37, 23 December 2021 diff hist +944‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk0ODY ‎ Created page with "[page 118] A. Where I knew I could not do it, where I had reported the same thing to him and knew I could not do it, I did not try to do it. Q. Whose business was it to see th..."
14:31, 23 December 2021 diff hist +1,045‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk0ODU ‎ Created page with "[page 117] A. And that is one of the difficulties under which that institution was laboring while you were there? A. Yes, sir; not as far as concerned myself, but all round th..."
14:24, 23 December 2021 diff hist +985‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk0ODQ ‎ Created page with "[page 116] The by-laws say that the attendants shall stay in the wards, and I could not make them stay. I had reported to Dr. Harlow that the attendants didn't stay in the war..."
14:18, 23 December 2021 diff hist +1,010‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk0ODM ‎ Created page with "[page 115] Q. What did you do then if you didn't have supervision or the responsible supervision over the men? A. I tried to do the best I could. Q. What did you mean by sayin..."
14:13, 23 December 2021 diff hist +977‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk0ODI ‎ Created page with "[page 114] Q. Were there patients put in there and left above and no one going near them except to feed them? A. Patients complained and said they had been left above; I could..."
14:06, 23 December 2021 diff hist +1,003‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk0ODE ‎ Created page with "[page 113] Q. I take it he was put in there because he was violent and would tear his clothes? A. Yes, sir, excited. Q. Has there been any change? haven't radiators been put d..."
14:00, 23 December 2021 diff hist +975‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk0ODA ‎ Created page with "[page 112] Q. What was the condition of the lodges on the mens side when you were there, & which you had charge of as a physician? I mean to say, what was the temperation of t..."
16:05, 21 December 2021 diff hist +1,039‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk0Nzk ‎ Created page with "[page 111] men with in the bath? A. Some times they would take their own garment. Q. What garment? A. Their shirt. Q. When was this change? A. I don't remember; some time this..."
15:59, 21 December 2021 diff hist +1,014‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk0Nzg ‎ Created page with "[page 110] Mr. Baker: Repeat that? Witness: I told the attendant to turn the slops into the water-closet and not into the bathtub. And I noticed in a day or two after that he..."
15:54, 21 December 2021 diff hist +1,061‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk0Nzc ‎ Created page with "[page 109] the kitchen. Dr. Butler: I object to that. You are not allowed to give such an answer as that. Q. As to the bathrooms; up to last year was or not their condition ex..."
15:47, 21 December 2021 diff hist +1,266‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk0NzY ‎ Created page with "[page 108] attendants discharged of the hospital here? A. Yes, sir. Q. Do you know why the clerk, Morse, was discharged? Was he discharged? A. He had to leave. I never heard..."
15:41, 21 December 2021 diff hist +1,038‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk0NzU ‎ Created page with "[page 107] perhaps 25 would cover it. It might be a little more or less on the women's side. Could not tell what the average would be on the women's side, 20, or along there...."
15:35, 21 December 2021 diff hist +983‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk0NzQ ‎ Created page with "[page 106] on the mens' side. The attendant knew nothing about it. The epileptic, he supposed, pushed him down. He was an old gentleman, some wheres sixty odd years old, and i..."
15:30, 21 December 2021 diff hist +959‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk0NzM ‎ Created page with "[page 105] attendant could be found, and you having to come along and unlocked it and let me through? A. Yes, sir. Q. Hasn't that occurred several times? Mr. Baker: Isn't the..."
15:25, 21 December 2021 diff hist +940‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk0NzI ‎ Created page with "[page 104] to be that the most of these were open. I ask you as far as you remember whether they were kept locked usually, day times, the whole of them? A. Yes, sir Q. Always..."
15:22, 21 December 2021 diff hist +1,097‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk0NzE ‎ Created page with "[page 103] farm. That is all I have to say about that. By Dr. Butler: Q. I would like to ask you a question or two. In the testimony given at the last meeting the Committee ^..."
15:16, 21 December 2021 diff hist +1,108‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk0NzA ‎ Created page with "[page 102] time before I left, Dr. Harlow and Sanborn being present. in the public office, Dr. Harlow, speaking of an attendant who had left, said: "I never heard a patient re..."
15:09, 21 December 2021 diff hist +1,058‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk0Njk ‎ Created page with "[page 101] after a moment, "Why, what is the matter? What has become of it? The engineer said there had been plenty," says Lakin, "it has been wasted." Dr. Harlow said nothing..."
15:04, 21 December 2021 diff hist +1,073‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk0Njg ‎ Created page with "[page 100] some what; because it will be impossible for me as a witness in one or two statements to show the inefficiency of a superintendent or the usurping powers of the ste..."
14:59, 21 December 2021 diff hist +1,020‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk0Njc ‎ Created page with "[page 99] and so far as every member of the committee is concerned, so far as I know, the fullest and freest investigation is deserved. It is to be presumed that this is a cas..."
14:54, 21 December 2021 diff hist +1,053‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk0NjY ‎ Created page with "[page 98] Mr. Baker: I do not desire to consume the time of the Committee, but I think I ought to say injustice to those for whom I appear that they have no desire to restrict..."
14:48, 21 December 2021 diff hist +1,018‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk0NjU ‎ Created page with "[page 97] in regard to declarations. Dr. Butler: I desire to call attention to this fact, and have it go upon the record; that after the testimony that has been taken has been..."
14:42, 21 December 2021 diff hist +1,106‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk0NjQ ‎ Created page with "[page 96] who said it made no difference whether they were put under oath or not. And in the second place, the ^ report of the first meeting, Mr. Chairman, which you say was p..."
14:35, 21 December 2021 diff hist +1,120‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk0NjM ‎ Created page with "[page 95] and I know they mean it, that the desire is to probe this to the buttons and have a searching investigation. I object to limiting this testimony to the strict rules...."
14:29, 21 December 2021 diff hist +1,165‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk0NjI ‎ Created page with "[page 94] up, said I, "We have been short of water." Then Dr. Sanborn put in a word. But Dr. Harlow I think, said nothing at all. Implying censure upon Dr. Harlow, that his de..."
14:22, 21 December 2021 diff hist +1,165‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk0NjE ‎ Created page with "[page 93] Now it is a fact in all hospitals that no patient can be properly attended to if the attendant is not in the halls to look after them. That would be an opinion I sup..."
14:15, 21 December 2021 diff hist +1,106‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk0NjA ‎ Created page with "[page 92] had also made the statement that she could not procure proper food for a sick patient; that she had gone to him and asked him for some chickens. Says Mr. Lakin, "We..."
14:09, 21 December 2021 diff hist +1,143‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk0NTk ‎ Created page with "[page 91] could be here Mr. Pettangall: Was it an explanation of the testimony you gave last week? Dr. Neal: No; I will not repeat at all. I wish to make an explanation before..."
14:01, 21 December 2021 diff hist +1,207‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk0NTg ‎ Created page with "[page 90] Dr. Butler: I find there prevails a wrong impression in regard to my position here and what I have said before the Committee. And the question has been asked, how is..."
13:53, 21 December 2021 diff hist +1,327‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk0NTc ‎ Created page with "[page 89] Tuesday, Feb. 8 1881 The Committee met according to adjournment, in the Hall of the House of Representatives, Messir Pattangall, Morrill Hill, Dudley, Goss, Sargent..."
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13:39, 21 December 2021 diff hist +993‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk0NTY ‎ Created page with "[page 88] and Dr. Harlow or Mr. Lakin may desire to call a witness to rebut that. They ought to have the privilege to do so. I state to you the witnesses I bring. They should..."
20:27, 20 December 2021 diff hist +1,126‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk0NTU ‎ Created page with "[page 87] Mr. Morrill: Dr. Butler will understand that this Committee has no authority to exercise any such power, and all we can do is to get it from the legislature. Dr. But..."
20:21, 20 December 2021 diff hist +1,157‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk0NTQ ‎ Created page with "[page 86] And I desire that the Committee will grant us power to send for persons and papers, for some witnesses who can attend for us may refuse to come Mr. Morrill: It is a..."