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13:50, 20 January 2022 diff hist +1,215‎ N .MjEwNg.MzAwODU ‎ Created page with "[page 718] they did not have sufficient attention by medical men. Ans. I will answer that in regard to one case where I felt it was a case for a woman physician. I would not l..."
13:43, 20 January 2022 diff hist +1,245‎ N .MjEwNg.MzAwODQ ‎ Created page with "[page 717] Ques. Do you think that a board of visiting physicians would have any better opportunities or do their duties any better than these gentlemen. Ans. I think they wou..."
13:38, 20 January 2022 diff hist +1,196‎ N .MjEwNg.MzAwODM ‎ Created page with "[page 716] was an unexpected visit to the officers. Ques. Do you know that there are 4 registers at the upper end of the lodge hall. Ans. Yes, several. Ques. There is a transo..."
21:12, 19 January 2022 diff hist +1,125‎ N .MjEwNg.MzAwODI ‎ Created page with "[page 715] heat in the lodges was kept on by night. Ques. It was a pretty cold night. Ans. Not as cold as I wicked it was. I thought it was not as good a test as we should ha..."
21:08, 19 January 2022 diff hist +1,144‎ N .MjEwNg.MzAwODE ‎ Created page with "[page 714] to make some garment out of cloth that was not easily torn and that it should be sewed on them, and they should have attendants enough to be able to change that clo..."
21:03, 19 January 2022 diff hist +1,182‎ N .MjEwNg.MzAwODA ‎ Created page with "[page 713] temperature too low for the health and comfort of the patients, so that you would have another engineer employed, to raise the temperature by night. Ans. I cannot t..."
20:56, 19 January 2022 diff hist +1,161‎ N .MjEwNg.MzAwNzk ‎ Created page with "[page 712] Ques. Do you now think it would be any benefit to have a night engineer. Ans. I do. Ques. If there is ample heat now both by day and by night, why increase the forc..."
20:51, 19 January 2022 diff hist +1,114‎ N .MjEwNg.MzAwNzg ‎ Created page with "[page 711] absolutely with her own hands or superintends the nursing. Ans. I understand in the hospitals, not insane hospitals, where they employ a head nurse that they superi..."
20:35, 19 January 2022 diff hist +1,161‎ N .MjEwNg.MzAwNzc ‎ Created page with "[page 710] in that position. I think she should be what we call a head nurse in other hospitals. Ques. Suppose you had a head nurse here, should she have charge of other nurse..."
20:30, 19 January 2022 diff hist +1,231‎ N .MjEwNg.MzAwNzY ‎ Created page with "[page 709] about it. My reason for recommending that she have an attendant was because she was so much of the time in the lodge, and complained a good deal of being there, and..."
20:24, 19 January 2022 diff hist +1,201‎ N .MjEwNg.MzAwNzU ‎ Created page with "[page 708] as it is practicable to have, in a public institution where the fees paid by the patients are $3.50 a week Ans. It seems to me there could be more and specially in..."
20:04, 19 January 2022 diff hist +1,199‎ N .MjEwNg.MzAwNzQ ‎ Created page with "[page 707] made because you were going to visit. Ans. I do not know that I have. I have been told a great many times in the halls, that they knew I was there. Ques. When you g..."
19:59, 19 January 2022 diff hist +1,083‎ N .MjEwNg.MzAwNzM ‎ Created page with "[page 706] and comparing this with other asylums you found that this compared favorably as to the number of attendants to the number of patients. Ans. With one or two excepti..."
19:52, 19 January 2022 diff hist +1,217‎ N .MjEwNg.MzAwNzI ‎ Created page with "[page 705] male side. Ques. Is it not the fact that no coils have been put in on the female side, because that is much nearer the heating apparatus, and they were not needed t..."
19:44, 19 January 2022 diff hist +1,240‎ N .MjEwNg.MzAwNzE ‎ Created page with "[page 704] to day in the institution, who is suffering from the want of proper medical treatment. Ans. Not being an expert, and not being a medical person it is not a question..."
19:35, 19 January 2022 diff hist +1,158‎ N .MjEwNg.MzAwNzA ‎ Created page with "[page 703] system of the male physician. Ans. They employed a male physician, they had not had the third physician until that time. Ques. Do you think a third physician would..."
19:30, 19 January 2022 diff hist +1,086‎ N .MjEwNg.MzAwNjk ‎ Created page with "[page 702] over the attendants in the hospital. Ans. Yes sir. Ques. Do you not believe that there could be such discipline over the attendants in the hospital that these abuse..."
19:23, 19 January 2022 diff hist +1,174‎ N .MjEwNg.MzAwNjg ‎ Created page with "[page 701] Ques. If you had had a night engineer, Palmer if he did suffer, would not have suffered from cold. Ans. No; I do not know as he would have suffered from cold, if th..."
18:44, 19 January 2022 diff hist +1,087‎ N .MjEwNg.MzAwNjc ‎ Created page with "[page 700] Ques. I believe that Mr. Phillips says that our institutions in this country are 50 years behind those abroad; should you say that the hospital as we have it now, t..."
18:39, 19 January 2022 diff hist +1,073‎ N .MjEwNg.MzAwNjY ‎ Created page with "[page 699] trustees in these two particulars, it is not necessary for one to say more on this point. By Mr. Fall Ques. When were the heating coils but under the lodge rooms. A..."
18:34, 19 January 2022 diff hist +1,255‎ N .MjEwNg.MzAwNjU ‎ Created page with "[page 698] wrong shall be overlooked. I believe that the management of a hospitable for the insane should be worthy of public confidence and to this end open to an intelligent..."
18:22, 19 January 2022 diff hist +1,327‎ N .MjEwNg.MzAwNjQ ‎ Created page with "[page 697] Testimony of Mrs. G.W. Quimby, sworn. Mr. chairman and gentlemen of the committee. I ask the privilege by virtue of the office that I hold as trustee of making a st..."
18:15, 19 January 2022 diff hist +1,132‎ N .MjEwNg.MzAwNjM ‎ Created page with "[page 696] of any kind. Ans. Not a cent. Ques. As to the discharge of the three men, the two who went with Mr. Hodgkins; you say you were in your place that night, and Mr. Hod..."
18:10, 19 January 2022 diff hist +1,282‎ N .MjEwNg.MzAwNjI ‎ Created page with "[page 695] Ques. If you were satisfied that an attendant said he would knock a man down for reporting on him, you would reprimand him first, and if you saw any reason to after..."
18:04, 19 January 2022 diff hist +1,112‎ N .MjEwNg.MzAwNjE ‎ Created page with "[page 694] that he would make a good supervisor. Ans. I felt so and I appointed him. Ques. Do you usually have your officers looked after, the men employed watch their conduct..."
17:45, 19 January 2022 diff hist +1,180‎ N .MjEwNg.MzAwNjA ‎ Created page with "[page 693] insane man who grappled him by the throat. Ans. Yes sir. All I saw of it was the kick. Ques. Was the patient whom he kicked a very violent, powerful man. Ans. He wa..."
17:39, 19 January 2022 diff hist +1,212‎ N .MjEwNg.MzAwNTk ‎ Created page with "[page 692] ascertained that you had discharged him. Ans. The patient had him by the throat and was choking him, he resisted and kicked him in order to get away from the patien..."
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17:34, 19 January 2022 diff hist +1,191‎ N .MjEwNg.MzAwNTg ‎ Created page with "[page 691] Mr. Baker: So I propose to recall Dr. Harlow who will be a very important witness, I wish now only to ask one or two questions with reference to some minor points a..."
17:28, 19 January 2022 diff hist +1,217‎ N .MjEwNg.MzAwNTc ‎ Created page with "[page 690] hospitals in New England in this respect. Ans. Yes, State Hospitals. Ques. So you think that is the theory of Kankakee Ills. Ans. I do not know much about that, tha..."
17:21, 19 January 2022 diff hist +1,148‎ N .MjEwNg.MzAwNTY ‎ Created page with "[page 689] By Dr. Butler. Ques. So the care that is bestowed upon the patients there, simply a care to keep them from hurting themselves and hurting others, warm, comfortable,..."
17:16, 19 January 2022 diff hist +1,168‎ N .MjEwNg.MzAwNTU ‎ Created page with "[page 688] if an attendant told of him he would knock him down, would you make him supervisor or would you remove him. Ans. I would reprimand him. Ques. Would you let him rema..."
17:11, 19 January 2022 diff hist +1,194‎ N .MjEwNg.MzAwNTQ ‎ Created page with "[page 687] holds and was doing good service." Ans. She was then, she did not afterwards. Ques. So the water supply there as good as it ought to be. Ans. Yes, respectfully sati..."
17:06, 19 January 2022 diff hist +1,340‎ N .MjEwNg.MzAwNTM ‎ Created page with "[page 686] not believe in solitary confinement. Ques. Under this system as you practice it without any solitary confinement, the abuses which have been testified here could no..."
16:58, 19 January 2022 diff hist +1,204‎ N .MjEwNg.MzAwNTI ‎ Created page with "[page 685] kind of attendants. Ans. No sir. I would get the best I could. Ques. You would have a little more room, and you would have a few extra attendants if needed; beyond..."
16:53, 19 January 2022 diff hist +1,158‎ N .MjEwNg.MzAwNTE ‎ Created page with "[[age 684] watch them the next day and for sometime all along, call to see them ever day and oftener if necessary. Ques. You think that under no circumstances could you make a..."
16:45, 19 January 2022 diff hist +1,294‎ N .MjEwNg.MzAwNTA ‎ Created page with "[page 683] Ques. Take the average insane person, a lady and let me speak cross to her, would her feelings be injures as much as if she were sane. Ans. Some of them would more,..."
16:40, 19 January 2022 diff hist +1,182‎ N .MjEwNg.MzAwNDk ‎ Created page with "[page 682] time he spends in amusing and entertaining his patients. Ques. Does he spend an hour a day. Ans. I should think he would. Ques. Does he spend two hours. Ans. Yes. T..."
16:31, 19 January 2022 diff hist +1,182‎ N .MjEwNg.MzAwNDg ‎ Created page with "[page 681] them looking after them, seeing that they are properly cared for, their wants attended to. Ques. Whether more than two hours in each day is spent by the average fem..."
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16:25, 19 January 2022 diff hist +1,293‎ N .MjEwNg.MzAwNDc ‎ Created page with "[page 680] Ques. I mean in personal attention to the patients in her ward. Ans. She spends some little time, I do not know how much. Ques. On an average day would the attendan..."
16:19, 19 January 2022 diff hist +1,226‎ N .MjEwNg.MzAwNDY ‎ Created page with "[page 679] Ans. As much as may be. Ques. What are the duties of an attendant for each particular day. Ans. I should have to refer you to the rules. Ques. Take any particular..."
16:13, 19 January 2022 diff hist +1,224‎ N .MjEwNg.MzAwNDU ‎ Created page with "[page 678] Ques. Has it not happened sometimes that no patient in your asylum has been to ride for three weeks. Ans. Possibly. Ques. Last Monday what else did you do in the wa..."
16:08, 19 January 2022 diff hist +1,252‎ N .MjEwNg.MzAwNDQ ‎ Created page with "[page 677] and some of them go out twice a dat, stroll about all who can do so. They are employed about the house, about the kitchen, about the grounds on the farm, the female..."
16:03, 19 January 2022 diff hist +1,164‎ N .MjEwNg.MzAwNDM ‎ Created page with "[page 675] the common acceptation of the term. Ques. How are they trained. Ans. Trained by experience in the care of the name by precept and touching. Ques. Trained principall..."
15:59, 19 January 2022 diff hist +1,232‎ N .MjEwNg.MzAwNDI ‎ Created page with "[page 673] Ques. Do you think that each of these cases is studied as closely as if you had a dozen cases, a dozen patients in a private hospital. Ans. I do not think a dozen..."
15:52, 19 January 2022 diff hist +1,283‎ N .MjEwNg.MzAwNDE ‎ Created page with "[page 672] cases. Ans. Perhaps 30 or 40. Ques. Of course you would not say that each one of the patients in the hospital receives as good treatment as he could receive if you..."
15:39, 19 January 2022 diff hist +1,226‎ N .MjEwNg.MzAwNDA ‎ Created page with "[page 671] Ques. You have been asked about special treatment in these cases. So there any special treatment in their cases. Ans. In regard to their peculiar, local diseases; n..."
15:33, 19 January 2022 diff hist +1,178‎ N .MjEwNg.MzAwMzk ‎ Created page with "[page 670] when they are there. I know who is at breakfast every morning and who are not, on the male side. Ques. So the time you see them at breakfast included in the two hou..."
15:28, 19 January 2022 diff hist +1,229‎ N .MjEwNg.MzAwMzg ‎ Created page with "[page 669] in some hospitals. Ques. In the morning when do you first see the patients. Ans. I see them between and 6 o'clock first in the morning. I spend from half past 5 ti..."