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17:38, 14 January 2022 diff hist +961‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk5Mzk ‎ Created page with "[page 571] Q. Did you have no occupation of your own to take up your time? A. I think I had as much occupation as the general run. Q. Then you didn't have occasion to notice t..."
17:34, 14 January 2022 diff hist +874‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk5Mzg ‎ Created page with "[page 570] have remedied it? A. He might to a certain extent. Q. Have you any doubt but that he would? A. If I had told this case to him I dont think he would have allowed tho..."
17:31, 14 January 2022 diff hist +1,016‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk5Mzc ‎ Created page with "[page 569] well acquainted with him. Q. Is he an inhuman man? is he a cruel man? A. No, I never knew him to be. Q. Likely to abuse or permit patients to be abused who are unde..."
17:27, 14 January 2022 diff hist +960‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk5MzY ‎ Created page with "[page 568] when he brought it from my pump; he was not drinking water when I saw him. He set his pail down and sat down on the portico trembling Q. Do you think your judgment..."
17:13, 14 January 2022 diff hist +984‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk5MzU ‎ Created page with "[page 567] Q. Yes, any thing about the hospital? A. Nothing only about the waterworks. Q. You have written about that? A. Yes, in the Maine Standard. Q. You have taken that tr..."
17:07, 14 January 2022 diff hist +994‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk5MzQ ‎ Created page with "[page 566] ought to be capable of looking after these things and employ men there that would give satisfaction Q. That is your reason? A. That is one reason, yes, sir. Q. And..."
17:03, 14 January 2022 diff hist +955‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk5MzM ‎ Created page with "[page 565] in 1873 that Chamberlain was hiring teams of me. Q. He was hiring teams of you? A. Yes sir Q. Did you ever report either of these cases to anybody connected with th..."
16:57, 14 January 2022 diff hist +970‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk5MzI ‎ Created page with "[page 564] Q. Is he there now? A. No. I should think he might have staid [stayed] 3 or 4 months after that Q. Do you know why not longer? A. I dont know Q. Do you mean to say..."
16:53, 14 January 2022 diff hist +988‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk5MzE ‎ Created page with "[page 563] Q. One pushed the other off the sidewalk and slapped her face? A. Yes, sir Q. Which one was pushed off? Was it the patient that pushed off the attendant or the atte..."
16:48, 14 January 2022 diff hist +985‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk5MzA ‎ Created page with "[page 562] Q. State it short. A. It will be a short story. This happened 11 years ago next May. That is the first case of that kind I ever saw, being some 2 months after I mov..."
16:43, 14 January 2022 diff hist +934‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk5Mjk ‎ Created page with "[page 561] During the time that he was approaching me having his hand hold of the mans coat collar, he pulled him down; and by the time he was on his feet I managed to get up..."
16:39, 14 January 2022 diff hist +956‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk5Mjg ‎ Created page with "[page 560] I say he out it over his back. By Dr. Butler: Q. Did you ever see an attendant kick a patient there in the field? A. In the pastime I have seen it done. Q. Tell it..."
16:32, 14 January 2022 diff hist +900‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk5Mjc ‎ Created page with "[page 559] By Dr. Butler: Q. Did you ever see a patient beaten there with an oxgoad? A. Yes, sir, I have. Q. Tell the story of that? A. It was four years ago last fall I think..."
16:25, 14 January 2022 diff hist +954‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk5MjY ‎ Created page with "[page 558] either stay out in the field and work in the hot sun or else I must be shut up all day." Then at the same time this man was trembling This was in the afternoon at 2..."
16:03, 14 January 2022 diff hist +859‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk5MjU ‎ Created page with "[page 557] Q. What did you and your wife do for him as he sat there? A. My wife was going to get some camphor for him to put on his head. and he says, "no, no." So she didn't..."
15:57, 14 January 2022 diff hist +879‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk5MjQ ‎ Created page with "[page 556] and he sat his pail down and sat down on the piazza steps and put his hand up to his forehead and kept rubbing it and trembling. This was in the afternoon. I went u..."
15:52, 14 January 2022 diff hist +908‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk5MjM ‎ Created page with "[page 555] Testimony of John B. Norton, sworn. By Dr. Butler: Q. Where do you live? A. I live a very few rods from the hospital, across the street. Q. How many rods? A. Say on..."
15:46, 14 January 2022 diff hist +791‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk5MjI ‎ Created page with "[page 554] A. A man working with me. Q. Had he been in the hospital? A. Yes, sir. Q. Had he been discharged? A. No; he had come out Q. You mean a patient? A. Yes, sir Q. Durin..."
15:41, 14 January 2022 diff hist +954‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk5MjE ‎ Created page with "[page 553] Q. Well, used as a privy thoroughly and entirely? Was it not? A. Occasionally, yes, sir. Could not help it. Q. Now the point is this: While the bath-tubs were in th..."
15:35, 14 January 2022 diff hist +923‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk5MjA ‎ Created page with "[page 552] Q. If you had had reasons to suspect you would have taken steps to investigate it A. Yes, sir. Q. You spoke of attendants staying in their rooms; rooms opening on t..."
15:27, 14 January 2022 diff hist +924‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk5MTk ‎ Created page with "[page 551] some other officer? A. I guess it is not in any rule book Q. Was it not a part of the duties which you enjoined on them? A. Never, no Q. You never directed them if..."
15:22, 14 January 2022 diff hist +884‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk5MTg ‎ Created page with "[page 550] supervisor, and you never know anything about it? A. Yes, it might be so. Q. Have you any reason to think that those cases ever did occur? A. No, I dont think they..."
15:17, 14 January 2022 diff hist +969‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk5MTc ‎ Created page with "[page 549] generally in the line of improvement was it not, adding to the comfort of the patients? A. No, sir, I dont think it is. Q. You left the institution feeling that you..."
15:11, 14 January 2022 diff hist +1,050‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk5MTY ‎ Created page with "[page 548] Q. No; sir the manner of their construction, haven't there been new bath-tubs put in? A. No, sir, only what has been in the new wings. I dont think there has been a..."
15:03, 14 January 2022 diff hist +946‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk5MTU ‎ Created page with "[page 547] do you that no improvements were made in the bath-rooms while you were there? A. O, no Q. You mean to say just the reverse of that dont you? A. I mean to say they t..."
14:49, 14 January 2022 diff hist +976‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk5MTQ ‎ Created page with "[page 546] bath-tubs were in this condition year after year that all these outside improvements of laundry and that large barn and flour-beds [flower beds] and all those thing..."
14:43, 14 January 2022 diff hist +960‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk5MTM ‎ Created page with "[page 545] or well? A. Yes, sir. Q. They let him out whether able or not? A. They do not consider it a mans business in the house to interfere with the out-door help taking pa..."
14:37, 14 January 2022 diff hist +990‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk5MTI ‎ Created page with "[page 544] Q. You say Sweeney worked Sunday and all days? A. He was taken at Sundays. Q. When he was first taken sick did he break right down at once? A. He was sick and left..."
14:30, 14 January 2022 diff hist +1,002‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk5MTE ‎ Created page with "[page 543] the reason that you have stated, about their being in their rooms and all these things that Mr. Baker has asked you, if you didn't know you violated the rules and w..."
14:25, 14 January 2022 diff hist +1,126‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk5MTA ‎ Created page with "[page 542] Q. Did they ask you if they asked Dr. Harlow? A. Yes, always, if they wanted to go after 9 oclock, and I always sent them to the Dr. Q. They can ask Dr. Harlow and..."
14:16, 14 January 2022 diff hist +1,033‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk5MDk ‎ Created page with "[page 541] did you? A. They went before that. Q. You knew they were going to stay until one or two? A. Yes, sir. Q. Now are the general regulations of that hospital printed an..."
14:08, 14 January 2022 diff hist +877‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk5MDg ‎ Created page with "[page 540] Q. You state to this Committee in oath that he was gone? A. He went to town and I didn't know he had got back, and I dont think he had. Q. Did you look to see? A. N..."
14:02, 14 January 2022 diff hist +979‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk5MDc ‎ Created page with "[page 539} Q. He did? A. I understood him so. Of course if I hadn't I should not have gone. Q. Tell him how many you were going to take off with you? A. No, sir Q. Tell him th..."
19:46, 13 January 2022 diff hist +946‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk5MDY ‎ Created page with "[page 538] Q. Dont you know that an order from you about that direct to the attendant would have been obeyed? A. It might and might not. Q. And if you had reported the attenda..."
19:41, 13 January 2022 diff hist +994‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk5MDU ‎ Created page with "[page 537] thing when he didn't take notice of it and act upon it? A. I have reported that to him and to Dr. Neal. Q. What? A. That the attendants staid [stayed] in their room..."
19:36, 13 January 2022 diff hist +1,009‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk5MDQ ‎ Created page with "[page 536] Are you familiar with that rule? A. Yes, sir. Q. It applied to you did it? A. Yes, sir. Q. Did you observe or disobey it? A. I tried to observe it Q. Was it not you..."
19:31, 13 January 2022 diff hist +974‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk5MDM ‎ Created page with "[page 535] them to be on duty, leave their rooms? A. I considered they were on duty then as long as they were in the hall. Q. So long as they were in their rooms? A. That is i..."
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19:17, 13 January 2022 diff hist +980‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk5MDI ‎ Created page with "[page 534] Q. Stay in their room half a day at a time? A. No, sir Q. How long? A. Two hours in a day. Q. Two hours at a time? A. Yes, sir Q. And you saw that? A. Some times I..."
19:11, 13 January 2022 diff hist +1,013‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk5MDE ‎ Created page with "not? A. Yes sir Q. Nothing said in regard to a visit? A. We calculated to fix up as well as we could for visitor Q. Didn't you calculate to keep just as well as you could righ..."
19:07, 13 January 2022 diff hist +1,014‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk5MDA ‎ Created page with "[page 532] appearance of patients other than the two things you have mentioned, than what you always did whether visitors were there or not? A. I dont know as you might call i..."
19:01, 13 January 2022 diff hist +982‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk4OTk ‎ Created page with "[page 531] things looking as well as we could. Q. You left the doors open and smoothed the beds when the patients had been lying on them? A. Yes, sir. Q. Those are the only tw..."
18:55, 13 January 2022 diff hist +1,012‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk4OTg ‎ Created page with "[530] Q. By the superintendent? A. Yes, sir Q. When? A. When they would be there. Q. What were his instructions? A. When they would send a team over here for the members to co..."
18:50, 13 January 2022 diff hist +966‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk4OTc ‎ Created page with "[page 529] always knew when they came in. Did you always know it? A. Yes, when I was there at the house. Q. You mean you always knew it when you were there at the house? A. Ye..."
18:43, 13 January 2022 diff hist +1,098‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk4OTY ‎ Created page with "[page 528] "Attendants are to secure perfect cleanliness and neatness in the house, furniture and patients as far as possible; nothing is to be considered clean which can be m..."
18:37, 13 January 2022 diff hist +1,050‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk4OTU ‎ Created page with "[page 527] that man never worked a quarter of a day at a time? A. No, sir. I dont know any such thing Q. As to the bath tubs; do you say they were allowed to be filthy while y..."
18:32, 13 January 2022 diff hist +987‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk4OTQ ‎ Created page with "[page 526] to this Committee, on oath, that you allowed a man to be broken down by labor when the man was under your charge, and never opened your lips to prevent it? A. He wa..."
18:27, 13 January 2022 diff hist +949‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk4OTM ‎ Created page with "[page 525] Q. Now if a man is taken out unproperly isn't it your duty to report to the office? A. I considered it my duty when the officers didn't know it themselves. Q. Didn'..."
18:23, 13 January 2022 diff hist +1,037‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk4OTI ‎ Created page with "[page 524] was a custom for supervisors to- Q. No, sir, my question I want you to answer Dont you know it was your duty, under that rule to have stopped him? A. No, I don't Q...."
18:18, 13 January 2022 diff hist +1,047‎ N .MjEwNg.Mjk4OTE ‎ Created page with "[page 523] to take away from your charge a patient who was put specially under your care, dont you know it was your duty to stop him if you thought the patient ought not to go..."