The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-28

watch on guard on each ward at an
hours of every night.
8. 1t is the judgment of this commit
tee that the efficiency of the service can
not be attained without increase in
wages; and the committee therefore rec
ommendS that the supervisors in all
Kansas be paid salary of six hundred
dollars per annum, and that the attend
ants on the wards be paid on a scale
ranging from twenty-five dollars to
forty dollars per month, according to
efficiency and length ofservice, and that
these rates apply to both male and fe-
male attendants
4. The committee recommends that these
institutions should be entirely removed
from politics. either in the selection of the
officers and employers or in their retention
in the service, and that the officers and
employees of these institutions should be
required to give their whole time and abil-
ity to the care of the unfortunates in their
charge, and should not be permitted to de-
vote any portion of their time to political
matters.
5. The committee recommends that the
Osawatomie hospital be provided with a
morgue or other suitable place, equipped
with the necessary appliances and conven-
fences for properly preparing and caring
for the bodies of those who die IN the nos
pital, and that the officers OF the instttu-
tion be held to strict responsibility Tor
the proper care of such bodies while they
are retained at the hospital. 1See tesumo-
ny of ]. S. johnson, at page 4O2. and of Su-
perintendent Uhls, at page 432)
6. The committee recommends that when
any patient dies in either of the state hos
pitfalls, the superintendent and attending
physician be required TO make such inveS-
tigation and examination of the BODY after
death and the circumstances surrounding
his or her death. that they may know the
cause of death and in case of a Surren-
der of the body to any person or society
or its shipment to relatives or friends, the
superintendent and attending physician be
required to make a written statement, in
duplicate, duly verified, of the cause of
the death of such patient, and shall fur
nish a copy thereof to the person or So
ciety to whom or which the body may be
delivered or consigned and retain the other
I copy on file in the office of the superin-
/ tendent
/ 4 The law already provides that em-
! ployes should not be removed for political
reasons This the committee believes TO
/ be a step in the right direction, and that
! more effective service might be secured by
making the slIperintendents of the various
institutions wholly responsible for the Sc
/ lection of all employees, excepting the med
I ical staff, of their respective institutions.
/ This committee recommends that the Doard
of trustees of charities and corrections
: have the appointments of the superlntend-
ents and the medical officers under them,
but that said board be forbidden the priv
| ilege of recommending other employees. The
surerfntendents should be made wholly
responsible to the board for the character
of their employees and the grade OF service.
1t would be well to establish proper sys-
TEN of examination for each oranch OF
service, which should test the intelligence
and capability of the applicant for EN-
ployment. 49,, 49, -
July, 1903.