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Investigation of the Committee of the Legislature of 1881 Concerning the Management of the Maine Insane Hospital Part 2
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A. (cont.) difference in that respect. I saw nothing to furnish amusements there. I noticed one thing not in use in this institution, what they call a covered bed in which they put patients when in a frenzy. | A. (cont.) difference in that respect. I saw nothing to furnish amusements there. I noticed one thing not in use in this institution, what they call a covered bed in which they put patients when in a frenzy. | ||
| + | Q. When you became a member of the visiting committee, did you enter your duties with more or less prejudice in your mind against the management of the asylum? | ||
| + | A. It was somewhat prejudiced against the management of the hospital. I had the impression there was something wrong about the management of the institution and I made the greatest endeavor to get all the facts of where it existed. | ||
| + | Q. At the end of your official connection with the asylum, did you change your mind in any respect? | ||
| + | A. I modified it very much. As a member of the visiting committee my position was simply advisory, and could only recommend to the trustees or the superintendent what I thought would be an improvement, I had no authority on the matter; as a trustee I felt it was my duty to do what I could towards adapting that improvement that which I believed to be an improvement to the treatment of the patients. I came to the conclusion with the exception of something that I | ||
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1199 A. (cont.) difference in that respect. I saw nothing to furnish amusements there. I noticed one thing not in use in this institution, what they call a covered bed in which they put patients when in a frenzy. Q. When you became a member of the visiting committee, did you enter your duties with more or less prejudice in your mind against the management of the asylum? A. It was somewhat prejudiced against the management of the hospital. I had the impression there was something wrong about the management of the institution and I made the greatest endeavor to get all the facts of where it existed. Q. At the end of your official connection with the asylum, did you change your mind in any respect? A. I modified it very much. As a member of the visiting committee my position was simply advisory, and could only recommend to the trustees or the superintendent what I thought would be an improvement, I had no authority on the matter; as a trustee I felt it was my duty to do what I could towards adapting that improvement that which I believed to be an improvement to the treatment of the patients. I came to the conclusion with the exception of something that I