The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-11-08

got some blue ointment to kill the vermin.
l tell you 1t was really filthy. In our report,
Mr.. Frank, DR.. Gleason, Judge Barrett n a
lot more wanted to strike out the word
"flthy' and insert instead the words "poorly
ventilated" but we whitewashed it the way
it was. The COMMITTEES appointed was Messrs.
Shields. Freyschlag, Gleason, ct al. The
man that told us he had blue ointment to kill
the vermin told us he procured 1t himself.
That's all l have to say. l fully endorse the
report of the Grand Jury and say it was as
light as We could possibly put it to call the
attention of the County Commissioners to it;
we thought those patients were not receiving
proper care and treatment. That's all l have
to say. I fully endorse the report of the
Grand Jury.
DR.. G~leason-Ihe man Mr.. Brannagan
was talking about, the man in the west room,
where there were no sheets on his bed, 1 be-
lleve was suffering from typhoid pneumonia,
and there was a man on the left hand side
that had his hand or foot mashed.
DR.. HoImes-In regard to the blue oint-
ment, l would say it was given to = man
named Flynn, who had the syphilis, and
some one reported he had lice the ointment
kills the lice and is also q cure for the syph-
Ills. l prepared that blue ointment myself.
Mr.. Frank--That report Of the Grand Jury
was drawn up by a coumittee appointed by
the Grand Jury.
DR.. Holmes-The Grand Jury visited the
hospital at the wrong time.
DR.. Gleason-Ths way that word "hlthy"
got in is this 1t was written by myself. I
made a draft Of the report, and Mr.. Shields
and two or three others were writing it and
they put the word ''flthy' in At the instance
of sone one, and afterwards we concluded
that it was q little too strong. and at the in
stance of Mr.. Barrett it was changed to
''poorly ventilated"
Mr.. Brannagan-I will just state in add
ton to what I said before that there was a
can of human excrement there that looked
as though it had been there a long time. 1t
smslled terribly !; in fact, it sickened the 9TH
ers so they couldn't 60 through the balance
of the building.
Jolly Well, we went down there and
Frank and myself took a short spin around
right through it, First, we went through
the lower floor and then went around and
came up through the second floor, and 1 said
this won't do; and we collared some
one below and | asked him how many pa
tients he had, and he said thirte en-, l believe
| couldn't see them, and asked him if he
had a book and he said ''yes," and he got the |
book and called off taeir names, then be |
us the lower floor. That was pretty
we'll and the second foor-well, it was
pretty rough. The garnet where the county
were was the worst of any. There
a county patient down stairs, but most
them were on the second floor and in the
garrett. The garnet was n pretty dam rough
place. / heard one Of the Grand Jurors say
he saw a man that was just covered with
yray-backs. Were you ever in that hospital?
Mr.. Hyde-No sir.
Jolly-We had hand IN the Grand Jury
DOM. Some wanted to give it the full ex-
;ent. and some wanted to modify it. If l
mad a friend there and it was the last dollar
had, l would give it to:him to get him cut.
Taking it all around, it was awfully bad. l
didn't see any sheets there. There was one
fellow there who had tobacco spit all around
him, and the spittoon was all filed up, and
was awfully dirty.
Jos. Venable Il know nothing about the
inside Of The hospital. There was a COM
plant made to me, as City Marshal, about
here being some old clothes and bandages, |
things of that kline in the street. 1 went
down and saw an .old mattrass, and some
bloody clothes and bandages. l told DR..
Holmes about it, and there have been no
complaints since. That's ali l know about it.
f. Fl. Buzzard - l wen to the up
per part of the hospital, and
[ shouldn't think it place fit
for sick people it looked rather rough and
The beds looked bad. Didn't see any sheets;
if there were any sheets there l didn't see
them. l don't think it a fit plac. to keep the
sick in. The way things looked that day it
was very bad The report of the Grand
Jury was substantially correct, and the fore
man ought not to be censured at all. 1t was
The report of all of us. 1 think it was the
toughest place l ever saw for sick people.
James Shields-I myself considered the
a filthy place, the upper part of it
In the down stairs part it was
In the upper part the beds looked
dirty al d the rooms looked dirty. There
we're no sheets upon the beds, and there was
a smell there that made me sick for two days.
The report was in favor Of making is a COED
deal stronger than it was. l don't think
l noticed the stairs. l was look
ing at the bids. believe l did notice a
there. There ID not proper ventila-