Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-05-16
| SUPERINTENDENT
WHITE HAS INNING
Administration of st. Eliza
beth Asylum Defended.
FORMER MTERNE TAYLOR
Pictured the Institution in an Exc
tremely Favorable Light.
GENERAL CLERK QUAD TALKS
His Testimony Highly Favorable to
DR.. White in the Character
Of the Employees.
FORMER INTERNE TAYLOR
GENERAL CLERK QUAD TALKS

Dr. White. superintendent Of the st. Ellis
abeth Insane Asylum. had an inning today
before the Olcott special committee which ID
inquiring into conditions at the institution
DR.. Taylor Of George Washington Univer-
sity Hospital. formerly medical inferno at
st. Elizabeth, and General Clerk Quaid Of the
institution gave testimony highly favorable
to DR.. White. DIR. Taylor pictured the asy-
lum in SO favorable light that. from his
point of view, 1t seemed almost n desirable
place of residence. The two witnesses men.
toned were before the committee during the
entire morning session. The committee be.
gan Its afternoon session at 2:8O.
DR.. Taylor Lauds the Institution.
Dr. l.. HI. Taylor was the first witness
called. He had been practicing physician
since 1903 and had served some time in 1909
and 1904 as a medical inferno at ST Eliza
beth's. He had secured his position through
a competitive civil service examination DIR.
Taylor said that while at the asylum he
had served as assistant to DIR. Toner who
was IN charge of &. department containing
about four hundred and fifty patients.
About fifty attendants took of this
number of inmates DR.. Taylor said that
he and DIR. Toner always made a round OF
inspection in the morning, and later the
witness had made at least one more round
on his own hook Some wards he had vis-
tied much oftener. He considered that there
were enough attendants at the asylum to
care for the patients.
THE food at the asylum was vastly above
the average of such Institutions" said DR..
Taylor. ut Is big job to cook for an in
stitution like st. Eizabeth's. The food is
served from a central station and neceS.
sarily becomes chilled in transit
Cleanliness Of the Food.
He had never SEEN anything to criticise
he rlo ,lfvao rf he Inr 1toxyl
said he was interested in seeing that the
patients got what was coming to them.
Once he had been instrumental in having
an attendant discharged for stealing sick
diets.
Referring to the treatment of patients,
DR.. Taylor said that DR.. White had largely
discontinued the use of restraints at the
asylum. The witness considered that the
form Of restraint known the bed sad
dle,' which DR.. White had discontinued.
was an ideal form of restraint.
DIR. Taylor said that patients were fed
through the nose only when necessary. Re-
ferring to the testimony of DR.. Reyburn
before the committee, in which the latter
described a feeding tube as "a glass tube
six inches long," the witness said that he
had never heard of any such apparatus and
did not think it would do the work. The
feeding tubes used at the asylum were OF
rubber and thirty-six inches long.
DIR. Taylor had never seen patients ILL.,
treated He would have had any attend
DR.. Whites Visits.
The witness said that Dr. White mao
gone through MS department. once week.
regularly.
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ness favored mechanlcal restraint rather
than restraint by attendants.
1.-The man never lived who wouldn't lose
his temper some tir1e,' said DIR. Taylor. ,
Not since Paurs time" commented Mr.
Smyser
Dr. Taylor referred to the efforts of many
military prisoners sentenced for life. to Sc
cure transfer to st. Elizabeth. 1T - an
awful place" he said sarcastically. but
they ali want to bt. sent there" He gave
several instances of military prisoners hav-
ing feigned insanity to secure transfer to
the asylum.
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