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13:39, 11 January 2022 diff hist +929‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk3OTI ‎ Created page with "[page 424] Q. From your own observation? A. Yes, sir. Q. You said you went there in '74? A. '74. Q. And staid [stayed] there two years tow years? A. Yes, sir. By Dr. Butler: Q..."
13:31, 11 January 2022 diff hist +916‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk3OTE ‎ Created page with "[page 423] a man to stay right with him all the time. If he was in straps or sheets he had a man to stay with him all the time Q. When a man was very sick or very violent an..."
13:22, 11 January 2022 diff hist +834‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk3OTA ‎ Created page with "[page 422] out for him? A. No, sir. Q. You haven't any accurate knowledge, then, about his condition, and no occasion to? A. No, sir. Q. Not under your charge? A. No, sir. Q...."
13:18, 11 January 2022 diff hist +816‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk3ODk ‎ Created page with "[page 421] Q. Some days or weeks? A. It might have been some weeks; week or two after. Q. How long was he sick before he died? die suddenly? A. Quite suddenly, yes, sir. Q. Di..."
20:41, 10 January 2022 diff hist +999‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk3ODg ‎ Created page with "[page 420] Q. Pretty regularly? A. Yes, sir. Q. Went every day did he? A. Yes, sir Q. More than once? A. Used to come in twice every day. Q. And went through the wards? A. Yes..."
20:34, 10 January 2022 diff hist +849‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk3ODc ‎ Created page with "[page 419] and wants, as he went along through them and among then? A. If there was a man very sick he used to. Q. Did he use to stop and chat with them more or less, speak a..."
20:25, 10 January 2022 diff hist +903‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk3ODY ‎ Created page with "[page 418] either by smell or taste or sight, what was on the tables, did he? A. Yes, sir. Q. He did that habitually all the time you were there? A. He did. Q. Even went so..."
20:19, 10 January 2022 diff hist +1,019‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk3ODU ‎ Created page with "[page 417] Q. There is now a sick room for patients? A. Yes, sir Q. So that with the improvements in the hospital they have made that improvement? A. Yes, sir. Q. And they hav..."
20:14, 10 January 2022 diff hist +971‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk3ODQ ‎ Created page with "[page 416] Q. Anybody specially detailed for them at any time? A. No sir Q. In no instance? A. Not that I remember of in the wards I was in. Q. Were the deaths you speak of su..."
20:09, 10 January 2022 diff hist +1,036‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk3ODM ‎ Created page with "[page 415] duties as the rules required him to do, there was no difficulty in his managing that number of patients was there? A. If there were none of them sick there was not...."
20:04, 10 January 2022 diff hist +869‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk3ODI ‎ Created page with "[page 414] Q. And there they had 700 patients? A. When I first went there they did. Q. How many patients are there in this hospital? A. I think about 400. Q. How many attendan..."
19:59, 10 January 2022 diff hist +1,001‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk3ODE ‎ Created page with "[page 413] Q. Then the rest of the patients had less attendants, of course? A. No, they had a man Q. You mean they would bring in an extra man? A. Yes, sir. Q. Employ and outs..."
19:39, 10 January 2022 diff hist +1,070‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk3ODA ‎ Created page with "[page 412] hospital also, I understand you? A. Yes, sir Q. For how many years? A. Two years. Q. In any other hospital? A. No, sir. Q. Speaking of the patients feelings: did th..."
19:31, 10 January 2022 diff hist +961‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk3Nzk ‎ Created page with "[page 411] substituted for it? A. I dont know. Q. Hasn't that fallen within your experience? A. There have been straps used there while I was there. Q. The bed-straps you mean..."
19:27, 10 January 2022 diff hist +1,116‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk3Nzg ‎ Created page with "[page 410] Q. That was his habit was it not? A. Yes, sir Q. Did that hold him especially when he had these fits of violence? A. He was violent all the time Q. A peculiar patie..."
19:22, 10 January 2022 diff hist +963‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk3Nzc ‎ Created page with "[page 409] Q. Then if persons were in the lodge and without clothing, put in while in the violence of insanity when they would be warm, it was a part of your duty to see, when..."
19:16, 10 January 2022 diff hist +884‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk3NzY ‎ Created page with "[page 408] visit that I made Q. What time did your rounds begin? A. 9 oclock Q. You say this was about 10? A. I dont remember particularly whether it was the first or second v..."
19:09, 10 January 2022 diff hist +949‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk3NzU ‎ Created page with "[page 407] spoke about the clothing, the first time I saw him that night. Q. You hadn't seen him on your first round that night? A. I dont remember whether that was the first..."
19:05, 10 January 2022 diff hist +968‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk3NzQ ‎ Created page with "[page 406] superior officer in the institution? A. No sir Q. Then whoever put him in there must have done it without order from the superior officer to put him in naked? A. I..."
19:00, 10 January 2022 diff hist +931‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk3NzM ‎ Created page with "[page 405] Q. And if you found a man who was suffering for any thing it was your duty to supply him? A. Yes, sir. Q. Or make his want know to some superior? A. Yes, sir. Q. Yo..."
18:55, 10 January 2022 diff hist +937‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk3NzI ‎ Created page with "[page 404] Q. To put him in the lodge whenever he became unmanageable? A. Yes, sir Q. That was the place for such patients wasn't it? A. Yes, sir. Q. And it was the duty of th..."
18:48, 10 January 2022 diff hist +965‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk3NzE ‎ Created page with "[page 403] Q. Was it a standing order that he should be out in there naked, without clothing? A. I dont remember about that. Q. Did you ever receive instructions about that,..."
18:43, 10 January 2022 diff hist +860‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk3NzA ‎ Created page with "[page 402] about that. Q. Did you do any thing for him? A. Yes sir Q. What did you do? A. We gave him some clothing. Q. Put them onto him? A. Yes, sir Q. And he staid [stayed]..."
18:39, 10 January 2022 diff hist +888‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk3Njk ‎ Created page with "[page 401] Q. Did you ever put any men in the lodge over here? A. Yes, sir Q. Did you ever know of their having to remain there when it was very cold? A. Yes, sir. Q. In the l..."
18:34, 10 January 2022 diff hist +979‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk3Njg ‎ Created page with "[page 400[ Q. Whether you ever knew any one to go out to work when they were unfitted on account of feeble health? A. No, sir, not that I know of. Q. How were they detailed?..."
18:30, 10 January 2022 diff hist +922‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk3Njc ‎ Created page with "[page 399] the first of my being there; but after the new hospital at Worcester was opened they cut them down, and there were between five and six hundred. Q. How many physic..."
17:53, 10 January 2022 diff hist +858‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk3NjY ‎ Created page with "[page 398] Q. Did they have any method by which they confined such a man to the bed? A. If a man was weak and needed to be confined to the bed, they used to put him in sheets..."
17:47, 10 January 2022 diff hist +967‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk3NjU ‎ Created page with "[page 397] A. There were no lodges there. Q. What did they do with the violent patients? A. They used to put straps on them; and when necessary they would put them in bed stra..."
17:41, 10 January 2022 diff hist +932‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk3NjQ ‎ Created page with "[page 396] Q. You say ^when a man was sick in bed he had what he needed? A. Yes, sir By Dr. Butler: Q. Were all the men that were sick and in ill health, abed? A. I am unable..."
17:36, 10 January 2022 diff hist +942‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk3NjM ‎ Created page with "[page 395] believe. I submit it is whether he knows anything about it. Q. Exactly. We will get his knowledge? A. Well, no, not particularly. Q. I will put the question in this..."
17:29, 10 January 2022 diff hist +905‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk3NjI ‎ Created page with "[page 394] Saturday. Feb. 19 Met according to adjournment. Messrs. Pettangall, Hill, Dudley, Morrill, Goss, Sargent, Eaton and Marble of the Committee were present. Testimony..."
16:47, 10 January 2022 diff hist +973‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk3NjE ‎ Created page with "[page 393] shall leave it to the Committee to decide whether he be summoned as a witness or not. Dr. Butler stated that he had taken good advice, and the course he proposed to..."
16:42, 10 January 2022 diff hist +1,067‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk3NjA ‎ Created page with "[page 392] if I appeared to make statements brought to my knowledge under such circumstances. And I prefer not to testify, although the facts stated by another man I should r..."
16:38, 10 January 2022 diff hist +990‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk3NTk ‎ Created page with "[page 391] question of churning and in reference to the knowledge of it by the officers. Was it or not a fact that there was so much of it that they had to give a name to it?..."
16:32, 10 January 2022 diff hist +1,002‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk3NTg ‎ Created page with "[page 390] you whether it was good or bad. Didn't you ask the same permission that the others did that night that you went to the dance or whatever it was? A. Yes, sir Q. Dont..."
16:28, 10 January 2022 diff hist +957‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk3NTc ‎ Created page with "[page 389] By Mr. Pettangall: Q. You say you always went to the superintendent and asked? A. When I was gone over night. Q. And still the rule was practically a dead letter al..."
16:23, 10 January 2022 diff hist +882‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk3NTY ‎ Created page with "[page 388] not? A. Yes, sir Q. Did the Dr. use to taste of the food at all when he came in? A. I dont recollect of his ever tasting any food; he used to taste of the coffee...."
16:19, 10 January 2022 diff hist +876‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk3NTU ‎ Created page with "[page 387] I said I had charge of the dining room only about a year. Q. And in one of them the Dr. agreed with you that it was bad and the man was discharged A. From the kitch..."
16:15, 10 January 2022 diff hist +906‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk3NTQ ‎ Created page with "[page 386] one of the attendants that another attendant was absent without leave? Was it not his duty to report it as much as the officers. A. I dont thank there was any duty..."
16:10, 10 January 2022 diff hist +968‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk3NTM ‎ Created page with "[page 385] Q. Didnt you find some thing in the rules that showed you ^that you ought not to leave without permission? A. Yes, sir. By Mr. Baker: q. You say it was the duty of..."
16:05, 10 January 2022 diff hist +909‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk3NTI ‎ Created page with "[page 384] By Mr. Pettangall: Q. Did you ever go away without leave? A. I dont know that I have. Q. I want a direct answer. Did you ever go away without leave from the hospita..."
16:00, 10 January 2022 diff hist +919‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk3NTE ‎ Created page with "[page 383] Q. And generally of a proper kind. You dont think patients go hungry there? A. I have stated about the meat. The meat was not what it ought to be I think Q. As a ge..."
15:56, 10 January 2022 diff hist +1,041‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk3NTA ‎ Created page with "[page 382] by the supervisor, who shall be held responsible for the charge until the attendant shall return." Has that been the custom over there in the hospital? A. Yes, sir...."
15:51, 10 January 2022 diff hist +961‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk3NDk ‎ Created page with "[page 381] that the same as the other would you not? A. I dont know. I was in the room at the time it happened. I had nothing to do with it. Q. Was anybody else in the room? A..."
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15:45, 10 January 2022 diff hist +969‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk3NDg ‎ Created page with "[page 380] he was sitting or standing. Q. Dont remember about that? A. No sir Q. Did the attendant do or say any thing to the patient while the patient stood in the door? A. I..."
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15:04, 10 January 2022 diff hist +978‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk3NDc ‎ Created page with "[page 379] Q. Or any officers of the institution? A. No sir Q. Where abouts in the hospital did this Mc'Carty matter occur? A. Right by the attendants room. Q. Was it outside..."
14:58, 10 January 2022 diff hist +1,037‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk3NDY ‎ Created page with "[page 378] Q. I say if he could not have in any way, prevented this, and was not in any way responsible for it, he having the immediate charge of the male wards, do you think..."
14:52, 10 January 2022 diff hist +866‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk3NDU ‎ Created page with "[page 377] Q. When the attendant was in temper? A. I dont know whether you would call him in temper, or not. Q. Was he angry? A. I dont know whether he was in temper, or not...."