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• 17:58, 27 December 2021 ECHobbs talk contribs created page .MjEwNg.Mjk1MzE (Created page with "[page 163] Q. Was that really the inducement which you had in your own mind for coming here? A. I should not have come- Q.- to supplant the superintendent? A. Not to supplant...")
• 17:53, 27 December 2021 ECHobbs talk contribs created page .MjEwNg.Mjk1MzA (Created page with "[page 162] Mr. Baker: Well, I will ask it. Q. Dr. Neal, what other inducement than the salary was there for you to leave a position which paid you a higher salary, and come do...")
• 17:46, 27 December 2021 ECHobbs talk contribs created page .MjEwNg.Mjk1Mjk (Created page with "[page 161] Q. When it occurred didn't you always know it was due to some temporary difficulty with the pipes or to the fact of a drouth [drought]? A. Yes, sir; no question abo...")
• 17:41, 27 December 2021 ECHobbs talk contribs created page .MjEwNg.Mjk1Mjg (Created page with "[page 160] Q. Was it not due to an insufficiency of rain? A. No, sir, there was plenty of water in the river, and they could have got it. Q. Was there water in the reservoirs...")
• 17:35, 27 December 2021 ECHobbs talk contribs created page .MjEwNg.Mjk1Mjc (Created page with "[page 159] Q. Didn't the treasurer have to be consulted to know what finds there were? A. Not by um, but by the superintendent and trustees. Q. Didn't he have to be consulted...")
• 17:25, 27 December 2021 ECHobbs talk contribs created page .MjEwNg.Mjk1MjY (Created page with "[page 158] were quite often wanting those books, and they would get torn and it would be a loss to the library Q. And when you spoke to Dr. Harlow about it he thought the bett...")
• 17:20, 27 December 2021 ECHobbs talk contribs created page .MjEwNg.Mjk1MjU (Created page with "[page 157] Q. Those would be about the extremes would they? A. There might be some times a very warm day, and the steam would get up so it would run up to 80 Q. They will run...")
• 17:14, 27 December 2021 ECHobbs talk contribs created page .MjEwNg.Mjk1MjQ (Created page with "[page 156] on the matter. The committee are men who do not need to hear a witness badgered in this sort of wat; and I submit that he should dispense with this unnecessary- Mr....")
• 17:09, 27 December 2021 ECHobbs talk contribs created page .MjEwNg.Mjk1MjM (Created page with "[page 155] Q. Dont you know how he died? A. I dont know how he died. He might have been hung for all I know. Q. That made up your second instance of tainted meat? A. Is that t...")
• 16:41, 27 December 2021 ECHobbs talk contribs created page .MjEwNg.Mjk1MjI (Created page with "[page 154] say; smelt very strong, stronger than I would want to eat a hog. Q. Ever know another instance of that sort while you were there? A. No, sir. Q. To whose attention...")
• 16:35, 27 December 2021 ECHobbs talk contribs created page .MjEwNg.Mjk1MjE (Created page with "[page 153] question: whether, after you reported the first instance of what you called tainted meat to Dr. Harlow, the difficulty was not remedied and you didn't find it after...")
• 16:29, 27 December 2021 ECHobbs talk contribs created page .MjEwNg.Mjk1MjA (Created page with "A. Yes, sir. Q. Personal knowledge? A. You mean that I didn't report myself nor saw it myself? Q. Yes, that is what I mean? A. That is all I can say. Q. Then you have personal...")
• 16:21, 27 December 2021 ECHobbs talk contribs created page .MjEwNg.Mjk1MTk (Created page with "[page 151] Q. Is it a fact that while you were there you lived better than the patients? A. Yes, sir. Q. Did you complain of that to the superintendent A. No, sir, it was not...")
• 16:13, 27 December 2021 ECHobbs talk contribs created page .MjEwNg.Mjk1MTg (Created page with "[page 150] there but once? A. I know of others that had been reported; I say I didnt see them; they were not brought to my notice but to Dr. Harlows notice. Q. Didnt you eat a...")
• 16:07, 27 December 2021 ECHobbs talk contribs created page .MjEwNg.Mjk1MTc (Created page with "[page 149] Q. Perhaps you task doesnt run to corned beef? A. Yes, I am very fond of good corned beef; but I dont like it there; a good deal of it patients can not eat or any b...")
• 15:58, 27 December 2021 ECHobbs talk contribs created page .MjEwNg.Mjk1MTY (Created page with "[page 148] Q. What did you mean by using the expression: you didnt try to hunt it up? A. Never in any case, unless the attendants reported to me did I try to find any. The att...")
• 15:49, 27 December 2021 ECHobbs talk contribs created page .MjEwNg.Mjk1MTU (Created page with "[page 147] A. No sir. Q. Have you say you discovered tainted meat three times? A. I believe I have only mentioned twice. I didn't report any more tainted meat. Q. Didn't see a...")
• 15:41, 27 December 2021 ECHobbs talk contribs created page .MjEwNg.Mjk1MTQ (Created page with "[page 146] and felt incapable of looking into the matter much. Q. When was that? A. I dont remember now; along when he first came there as trustee. I complained to him about t...")
• 15:33, 27 December 2021 ECHobbs talk contribs created page .MjEwNg.Mjk1MTM (Created page with "[page 145] A. He and his wife together- you were not here before? Q. No sir, I was not. A. The first time I brought it out to the Dr. he and his wife were in his office. And t...")
• 15:26, 27 December 2021 ECHobbs talk contribs created page .MjEwNg.Mjk1MTI (Created page with "[page 144] didnt occur in the very wards you had the charge of? A. Yes, sir. I make no complaint about cleanliness? A. As I told you, he and I didn't agree on that matter of t...")
• 15:05, 27 December 2021 ECHobbs talk contribs created page .MjEwNg.Mjk1MTE (Created page with "[page 143] know as I do. Was he under you or not? A. He was not under me quite; I could not say that he was under me. He was an officer there in the institution. Q. Was it not...")
• 14:59, 27 December 2021 ECHobbs talk contribs created page .MjEwNg.Mjk1MTA (Created page with "[page 142] Witness: That is an opinion. Yes, sir. Q. Were the bath tubs washed out after slops passed through them? A. When it comes bathing day they are always attended to. T...")
• 14:49, 27 December 2021 ECHobbs talk contribs created page .MjEwNg.Mjk1MDk (Created page with "[page 141] kept right along. Q. In that particular place? A. In each of the three wards. Let me explain now so you will understand. There is a dining room on each floor of th...")
• 14:44, 27 December 2021 ECHobbs talk contribs created page .MjEwNg.Mjk1MDg (Created page with "[page 140] to be a very good reason for that, on the ground that there might be something in there that would clog up the closet, and would of course pass through the bath tub...")
• 14:39, 27 December 2021 ECHobbs talk contribs created page .MjEwNg.Mjk1MDc (Created page with "[page 139] Q. You would not state positively that you did say to him at that time that there ought to be a towel to each man? A. I would not say as to that at all but it would...")
• 14:34, 27 December 2021 ECHobbs talk contribs created page .MjEwNg.Mjk1MDY (Created page with "[page 138] Q. So what you asked him he did do? A. I could not say that he ever did. Q. If you made a complaint to the Dr. was it not a part of your duty to know if he acceded...")
• 14:29, 27 December 2021 ECHobbs talk contribs created page .MjEwNg.Mjk1MDU (Created page with "[page 137] until this last year. Q. Keep yourself to my question. Will you say there were additional towels furnished after your application? A. I will say what I have stated;...")
• 14:16, 27 December 2021 ECHobbs talk contribs created page .MjEwNg.Mjk1MDQ (Created page with "[page 136] to Dr. Harlow? A. There was not a towel for each man any time I was there until this last year. Q. Will you answer my question? A. I cannot answer it any other way....")
• 14:05, 27 December 2021 ECHobbs talk contribs created page .MjEwNg.Mjk1MDM (Created page with "[page 135] A. I dont object to that. They look very well as far as neatness is concerned. Q. Now about the bath rooms a little bit, and the towels. You say there were not enou...")
• 13:56, 27 December 2021 ECHobbs talk contribs created page .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 ECHobbs talk contribs created page .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 ECHobbs talk contribs created page .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 ECHobbs talk contribs created page .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 ECHobbs talk contribs created page .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 ECHobbs talk contribs created page .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 ECHobbs talk contribs created page .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 ECHobbs talk contribs created page .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 ECHobbs talk contribs created page .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 ECHobbs talk contribs created page .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 ECHobbs talk contribs created page .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 ECHobbs talk contribs created page .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 ECHobbs talk contribs created page .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 ECHobbs talk contribs created page .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 ECHobbs talk contribs created page .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 ECHobbs talk contribs created page .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 ECHobbs talk contribs created page .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 ECHobbs talk contribs created page .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 ECHobbs talk contribs created page .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 ECHobbs talk contribs created page .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 ECHobbs talk contribs created page .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...")