Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1909-12-09

an insane asylum. When the records,
therefore. passed into the hands of DR..
Din he was unable to make his tran
script complete.
So FAR there have been four unac-
counted for patients: under the classi-
f~ication of the letter Il" there were
found two patients of whom there were
no records or family history. One
proves TO be Catherine Leis, who Is
now and has been for several years a
domestic in the home of the ormer SUI
perintendent, DIR. Hinckley, at his home,
in Clinton avenue. This discovery was
made to the establishment of the inyes-
tigators.
The second was Julie Leipzer. She
is now and has been a patient at the
hospital. but the authorities have so
far been unable to get any record of
her family. Relative to the Littner
woman. there is no record whatever,
not even the recording of her name in
any of the many sets of books at the
hospital.
No trace whatever has been found of
the old records that We're in use at the
old Camden county institution.
Theodore $. Gottlieb. secretary of the
hospftaI committee of the Board Oh
F-reeholders. when seen today, stated
'that il was beyond any physical
ability to try. to discover any records
which would throw light upon Who the
PATIENTS we're that were removed from
The Camden street institution.
II. in company with the prosecutors
detective. Teed, he said, have spent
many days looking for any record
which might throw some light upon
the list Of patients that were removed
AT present there are at least thirty
patients that were moved and on the
books at the present time there are no
records.
why. in most all cases there are not
even any addresses. / might "a that
we found a book which could be pur-
chased at any store for twenty-five
cenfs In which several anne were reg
istered.
"The entire blame cannot be placed
upon Or. Din for the failure to regis
ter the names Of h patients. We are
assured that when he took possession
OF the institution he was not in a po-
sition to get acquainted with every
case. IS his predecessor, DIR. Hinckley,
lad left no Information upo which to
worn.
az is a fact that III the majority of
cases there was M record OF the pa
tient and no way by which the hos
pitai authorities could notify relatives
or friends in case OF a calamity.
When asked about the treatment oil
the patients that had come under his
personal attention. MIR. Gottlieb said;
II was visiting the institution on
a sunday and the way one of the male
inmate was being handled was simply
outrageous. IN fact. it had come to
such turn that / was about to re1non-
strate with the attendants, when they
sllov ed Tie man, to get III. Taxed with
the manner in which the attendants
were treating the patient, he said 1t
was Dinner time, M It appeared that
the patient was averse to eating. When
ne refused to do as requested the at
f~euaents grasped the man by the throat
and fling lin TO the ground and set
uTon him raining blow after blow.
i bottled Dr.. Dill of the occurrence and
aisu the hospital committee, but no
aetion III the matter was taken.
i.sst August. in order to show the
fosfital committee that our institution
as not keeping abreast with the times,
J arranged a trip to Central Islia SO
that we could see just where our faults
were. The trip was in vain, for
though We were shown one of the finest
ores nized institutions. we in our city
failed to make one improvement. From
ti:1e to time l have suggested minor
changes, which, in my opinion, would
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