Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1903-06-30
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E. ". CHAVES
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has not beer impeached. These wit
nesses are: Mrs. Fila Schlott, Miss
Kate Ground, F. ]. Gehring, Manuela
Chaves de Jaramillo, Cornelia Calm
dro, Virginia Maestas and others.
8. That the body of one Mary Leon
ard, a patient, was opened by DR.. Mob
lau, with the consent of DR.. Upton, the
medical superintendent, the object for
doing so being to ascertain whether or
not the patient was pregnant, and al
80 to nave an articulated skeleton in
the institution for scientific purposes.
The flesh of the body was removed,
placed in a soap box and buried in the
graveyard of the institution. The bones
and the barrel were forgotten and NO
water was put in it, and finally
the barrel itself went to pieces for the
ground, and a patient seeing them
threw them over the fence surround
ing the institution. One DR.. Da Costa,
who was then acting as assistant sup
erintendent, found these bones about
W months ago-a period OF about
three years after they were first plac-
ed in a barrel. Two of the members of
the board of directors of the asylum
then picked the bones up.
In this instance of Mary Leonard
great carelessness is shown both in the
medical superintendent, who had
knowledge of this matter, and in the
other employees, who being on the
grounds daily could by very nltle eff
fort almost non at alb have discov-
cred the human bones of this unfortu-
nate woman, who at least was entitled
to have her bones covered by mother
earth.
3. In the DIR. Mohlau matter the evil
dence shows in erect the same facts
as are found by the majority of the
committee.
10. That the medical superintendent,
w. r. Upton, stands high as a man
and a citizen, as well as a physician,
and hal almost as good a knowledge of
the Spanish language as he has OF the
English.
That the medical superintendent had
no knowledge of the unusual, cruel and
inhuman treatment visited upon the
patients by the inferior employees of
the institution. as hereinbefore set
forth, and the evidence further shows
that in one or two instances, where
such came TO his knowledge, the cul
prits were either discharged or repri
manded; except in the Mary Leonard
case, where it was shown that he haC
knowledge of that matter.
In view of the above facts and o
the evidence adduced on investigation
am forced to conclude that the inst
tuition is susceptible to a great deal O
improvement, and in my opinion tn
change that would have more satisfaC
tory results would be a provision TO
the payment of the superintendent c
a salary sufficient TO justify him an
require him to devote his time excl
sively to the management of the il
sane asylum. By being continuously
the institution, instead of about thre
hours daily that he now attends, h
would be more apt to discover the 1
efficiency of his inferior employe
and their mismanagement of the deta
work of the institution, II such occu
do not think, as the majority of Il
committee believe, that the emplo
ment of an assistant superintendent
reside permanently at the institute,
would produce the desired result,
the reaso that an assistant, the saI
as other employees, not having I
full responsibility of the manageme