Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-05-21
AFTER WHITES SCALP
St. Elizabeth Attendants
Hold Meeting.
RESOLUTIONS PASSED
CLAIM PATIENTS ARE BADLY
TREATED AT ASYLUM.
American Federation Of Labor to Be
Called on for Aid-Statement
Of an Employe.

The troubles that have been brewing be-
tween the attendants and the management
of the Government Hospital for the Insane
since the incumbency of DR.. White as su-
perintendent came to head last night,
when a meeting Of more than 40 per cent OF
the attaches, both women and men, was
held in Haines' Hall, Anacostia, OF the
Hospital Attendarts' Protective Union,
which is affiliated with the American Fed
Grafton Of Labor. The hospital union,
which has been organized four years, and
which has heretofore held meetings In Sc
cret, on account of the attitude OF the
management, has now come out openly with
a determination to fight for what they be-
lieve to be right and just in the matter OF
|. remuneration for services rendered In the
care of the insane.
The principal question undes discussion
last night was the arbitrary curt in wages
made by DR.. White last month. and resolu-
tons were passed condemning the manage
ment for the manner OF treating the pa
tents at the institution as we'll as for the
treatment accorded the attendants. 1t was
decided to select a delegate from the union
to present the matter to the American Fed
Grafton of Labor with view of securing
the cooperation of that body In fighting
the grievances. 1t was apparently the sense
of the meeting to make 1t warm for DR..
been unkind and unjust to them, but had
been unlSind and to have badly treat
ed the patients under has charge by furn-
shing poor food, butterine and other imita-
ton products instead of the nourishing
dishes that should be given them. The for
mer management of the hospital was laud-
ed, and 1t was stated at the meeting that
the regime of DR.. White had fallen far
short of the standard set:
Told by an Attendant.
One of the attendants at the hospital
said to reporter for The Star today:
THE true condition of affairs existing
at the hospital since DR.. White assumed
charge has never been depicted. He has,
by selfish and ungenerous disposition.
revolutionized the institution. Precedents
have been struck down by misfit regula-
tons. Where kindness once existed, harsh
treatment and Indifference now reign. The
line of demarkation drawn by society be-
tween all insane man and a criminal 1s
peculiarly unrecogntzed and nurses and at
tendants appear decidedly unfamiliar with
the distinctions made by DR.. White.
THE kind and philanthropic treatment
accorded both patients and nurses by the
late Or. Richardson makes the present
harshness and selfish Indifference of the
conduct Of affairs more glazing and more
apparent.
'iDr. Richardson is sadly missed by pa
tents and attendants. The comparison is
far from pleasant. Under his regime there
was all kindness and sunshine over the
clouded lives of the poor insane. but today
that quiet peace is no more; in its stead
are hustle and turmoil, restfulness is abb
sent"
Continuing. this attendant said that the
nurses and attendants had repeatedly wait
ed on DR.. White. with the respectful re-
quest that he allow their too meager sal
aries to remain as they were.
How Reductions Were Made.
Following shows the manner in which
reductions were made: