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18:38, 11 January 2022 diff hist +1,059‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk4NDE ‎ Created page with "[page 473] more freedom. They are simply placed in a room and have their freedom to go about the room as they please. The lodge system is used in nearly all the hospitals I t..."
18:33, 11 January 2022 diff hist +1,048‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk4NDA ‎ Created page with "[page 472] been bed-strap used there Q. Haven't been any since you have been there? A. Not since I have been there. I have never seen any there. Q. Give to, ^the Committee wha..."
18:27, 11 January 2022 diff hist +1,040‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk4Mzk ‎ Created page with "[page 471] occurred whether there had been four attendants or two? A. If an attendant had stood right over the patient she probably would not have lighted it. Q. It might have..."
18:23, 11 January 2022 diff hist +1,007‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk4Mzg ‎ Created page with "[page 470] same number of patients to look after, although the amusement was going on and a part of them were absent? A. It would not vary materially. Q. You went in directly..."
18:19, 11 January 2022 diff hist +979‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk4Mzc ‎ Created page with "[page 469] A. Yes, sir Q. At that amusement? A. Yes, sir. Q. And attendants had to go with them and did go with them did they? A. Yes, sir, a certain number. Q. And that had r..."
18:12, 11 January 2022 diff hist +975‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk4MzY ‎ Created page with "[page 468] and supervisors. Q. Was there any rule or regulation that fixed precisely the duties of the chief nurse, as to the giving of medicines or otherwise? A. That was one..."
18:07, 11 January 2022 diff hist +1,027‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk4MzU ‎ Created page with "[page 467] Q. Can you recollect any other case of what you considered as personal abuse of a patient during the 15 years you have been there? If so, state to the Committee wha..."
18:02, 11 January 2022 diff hist +844‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk4MzQ ‎ Created page with "[page 466] know of any. Q. None during the 15 years you have been there? A. I dont know of any. Q. Have you ever seen yourself a case of the sort, in any form? A. I dont know..."
17:58, 11 January 2022 diff hist +913‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk4MzM ‎ Created page with "[page 465] A. In regard to reporting? Q. Reporting cases of abuse, ill treatment of patients? A. Yes, sir. Q. Disobedience of rules generally? A. Yes, sir Q. You have charged..."
17:53, 11 January 2022 diff hist +1,038‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk4MzI ‎ Created page with "[page 464] had reported? A. No, sir. Q. And where discharges had occurred? A. No, sir. Q. But simply those coming within your own personal knowledge and reports? A. Yes, sir Q..."
17:47, 11 January 2022 diff hist +1,024‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk4MzE ‎ Created page with "[page 463] steps to investigate it and deal with it and remedy it? A. I dont remember of any. Q. Have attendant been discharged for inefficiency of one kind and another, on re..."
17:24, 11 January 2022 diff hist +1,003‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk4MzA ‎ Created page with "[page 462] when you have failed to have the matter remedied directly by orders to the attendants or by report to the superintendent? A. I dont know of any. Q. You cannot remem..."
17:18, 11 January 2022 diff hist +1,040‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk4Mjk ‎ Created page with "[page 461] performing his or her duty what did you do? A. As a rule I reported it to the superintendent. Q. Did you take any steps to remedy it yourself? A. Occasionally, yes,..."
17:09, 11 January 2022 diff hist +944‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk4Mjg ‎ Created page with "[page 460] had had. I dont know whether you understood the question. I understood you to state that you had had occasion to complain of the attendants being off duty at one ti..."
17:03, 11 January 2022 diff hist +915‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk4Mjc ‎ Created page with "[page 459] handed it to her? A. No, sir Q. Do you consider the patients of a ward can be properly cared for when the attendants remain in their room, the door of the room open..."
16:59, 11 January 2022 diff hist +985‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk4MjY ‎ Created page with "[page 458] at the time? A. I was speaking of the duties of Miss. Clough, its being one of her duties to carry the medicines. There may have been particular cases- yes, I know..."
16:53, 11 January 2022 diff hist +934‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk4MjU ‎ Created page with "[page 457] Q. And that is the general way? A. As far as I know. Q. Now, in your asylum do you do all of that that you can? A. We strive to, yes, sir. Q. Of course we all know..."
16:47, 11 January 2022 diff hist +877‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk4MjQ ‎ Created page with "[page 457] of the physical system is done by fresh air, exercise and good rich diet, and things of that kind, very much the same course that a man would take if he was worn do..."
16:40, 11 January 2022 diff hist +977‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk4MjM ‎ Created page with "[page 455] the physical system? A. Yes, sir Q. To build up the physical system what are the usual ways exercised? A. There are various methods; yes, sir. You are now speaking..."
16:34, 11 January 2022 diff hist +957‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk4MjI ‎ Created page with "[page 454] done by their own permission or not Witness: I can say that it is not done. Q. Isn't now? A. No, sir. Q. That you do not know it to be? A. Never has been since I ha..."
16:26, 11 January 2022 diff hist +881‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk4MjE ‎ Created page with "[page 453] Q. But otherwise than that there was generally one? A. Yes, sir. Q. She some times went away to be gone a few hours, as they all did? A. Yes, sir Q. Did you ever kn..."
16:21, 11 January 2022 diff hist +940‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk4MjA ‎ Created page with "[page 452] there that for some years past they have refused to take medicine from a man but they would take it from a woman. Mr. Baker: Who testified to that? It has not been..."
16:15, 11 January 2022 diff hist +999‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk4MTk ‎ Created page with "[page 451] has made it. The trustees and Dr. Harlow are obliged to do certain things which, I wish to say, are wrong and ought not to be. And this is one- putting the patients..."
16:06, 11 January 2022 diff hist +974‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk4MTg ‎ Created page with "[page 450] their friends seen, by accident, not purposely? A. I dont know. Q. Have you not seen occasions like this: where these visitors were going through there would be pat..."
16:02, 11 January 2022 diff hist +955‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk4MTc ‎ Created page with "[page 449] patient, because many stay in their rooms Q. Do the visitors ever look into the lodges when patients are there? A. There may have been times when we have taken them..."
15:57, 11 January 2022 diff hist +964‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk4MTY ‎ Created page with "[page 448] Q. Rather than restraint? A. Yes, I do. Q. There is a rule or a law in some shape by which the public, or whoever comes there, are allowed to come in, and you are o..."
15:44, 11 January 2022 diff hist +989‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk4MTU ‎ Created page with "[page 447] particular objections for two attendants to take charge of three halls, which would be one and a half a piece, provided quite a portion of their patients were in th..."
15:40, 11 January 2022 diff hist +973‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk4MTQ ‎ Created page with "[page 446] was in the upper first, and communicated it; and then you got down- Mr. Baker: You were not there at the time the fire occurred? Witness: No. Dr. Butler: I am askin..."
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15:33, 11 January 2022 diff hist +950‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk4MTM ‎ Created page with "[page 445] and these were so violent that they were not taken into the chapel? A. Could not get in these; too sickly in the upper second Q. How did you gain knowledge of the f..."
15:29, 11 January 2022 diff hist +962‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk4MTI ‎ Created page with "[page 444] understand you. Miss. Bean was one. I remember this distinctly: that she told me that she was walking back and forth in the upper first and upper second. Q. Were th..."
15:22, 11 January 2022 diff hist +906‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk4MTE ‎ Created page with "[page 443] A. No, sir. I have reference to the upper first, upper second and upper third halls Q. The upper first is which of the three? A. The first one as you go in, as you..."
15:18, 11 January 2022 diff hist +931‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk4MTA ‎ Created page with "[page 442] that these patients could come out into the hall? A. Yes, all of them, practically all of them. Q. Now how had they left the patients of that hall? Who had them in..."
15:12, 11 January 2022 diff hist +955‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk4MDk ‎ Created page with "[page 441] patient? A. At times she would have fits of violence, although we didn't regard her as a very violent patient, although I suspect that she may have set fire. Q. The..."
15:08, 11 January 2022 diff hist +1,046‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk4MDg ‎ Created page with "[page 440] Q. You know that? A. Well, no, I wont say that; because occasionally she was away, and then it became the duty of the supervisors. Q. When she was there, do you kno..."
15:03, 11 January 2022 diff hist +886‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk4MDc ‎ Created page with "[page 439] A. Yes, sir. Q. That has been a trouble to you? A. Yes, sir Q. Are you able to correct it immediately? A. Yes, sir. Q. There has lately been in the hospital what is..."
14:59, 11 January 2022 diff hist +997‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk4MDY ‎ Created page with "[page 438] Q. But you have no particular reference to that cause more than to any ^other? A. No, sir. Q. Have you any system of treatment over there on that side of the hospit..."
14:48, 11 January 2022 diff hist +905‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk4MDU ‎ Created page with "[page 437] appear in medical books as a frequent cause of insanity? A. O, as one of the causes. Q. I say a frequent cause? A. I am not aware of it. Q. Now are not there a grea..."
14:44, 11 January 2022 diff hist +1,002‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk4MDQ ‎ Created page with "[page 436] Q. Are there many patients in the sick rooms now? A. There are four Q. Are there many in their own rooms sick so as to be confined to their beds? A. No, sir, not pe..."
14:38, 11 January 2022 diff hist +902‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk4MDM ‎ Created page with "[page 435] Testimony of Bigelow T. Sanborn, sworn. By Dr. Butler: Q. What are your duties as assistant superintendent in a general way? A. I am supposed to visit the halls, I..."
14:34, 11 January 2022 diff hist +730‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk4MDI ‎ Created page with "[page 434] a. Yes, sir. Q. Did attendants at Taunton ever use force in handling violent patients? A. They were obliged to at times. Q. Now, in a given case, did they use more..."
14:31, 11 January 2022 diff hist +873‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk4MDE ‎ Created page with "[page 433] By Mr. Morrill: Q. Did I understand you to say you would prefer the lodge to the strap operation providing it was comfortably warm? A. Yes, sir Q. In you own case?..."
14:27, 11 January 2022 diff hist +909‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk4MDA ‎ Created page with "[page 432] so he could not move his limbs, than he would to have the use of his limbs and go about the hall? Do you mean to say he would not suffer more from the straps than f..."
14:22, 11 January 2022 diff hist +873‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk3OTk ‎ Created page with "[page 431] regular duty was it not? A. Yes, sir Q. You say Palmer was a very violent man? A. Yes, sir. Q. Powerful? A. He was Q. If these bed-straps had been put on him he wou..."
14:15, 11 January 2022 diff hist +935‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk3OTg ‎ Created page with "[page 430] in the lodge and keep him warm there A. They considered it so, yes, sir Q. I am asking you. He would be as comfortable in the lodge, warm, as he would in the hall,..."
14:10, 11 January 2022 diff hist +936‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk3OTc ‎ Created page with "[page 429] onto him: instead of strapping him onto a bed or putting him into the lodge, would a better way still be to have a man sit up with him while the fit of violence wa..."
14:06, 11 January 2022 diff hist +882‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk3OTY ‎ Created page with "[page 428] at a time in your hall? A. I dont remember particularly about how many Q. Had you had five? A. Not at one time Q. Had you three? A. I very seldom had three Q. Had y..."
13:58, 11 January 2022 diff hist +852‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk3OTU ‎ Created page with "[page 427] and the fit upon him, as it was at that time, to take him from that condition in the lodge and put the straps on him and put him on a bed and put clothes on him? A...."
13:49, 11 January 2022 diff hist +878‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk3OTQ ‎ Created page with "[age 426] him an extra attendant? A. Yes, sir. Q. Tying him with sheets that you spoke of? Mr. Baker: Bed-straps he said. Q. Well, put him on a bed? A. They put a man of that..."
13:44, 11 January 2022 diff hist +888‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk3OTM ‎ Created page with "[page 425] the sack and into the straw like a pig? A. I have known them to. Q. At other times have you known them to be down on it? A. Yes, sir. Q. Which way should you think..."