Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-08-24
PURGE THE STATE SANITARIUJ>G.

inquiry commenting
declares without quaifa-
authorities of this
institution, they could prevent them
language employed in the report OF the peca
appointed investigate the con-
sanitarium with much else which equally
the people of the state to the crying necessity Oh
conditi at
report Brown on July 49,
until the day OF its ad
printed elsewhere in The Journal In t" LOT
sensational charges we're ever before MADE
regard any publication Of the full
report WILL to people of Georgia
to investigate certain spectre
charges which had sanum to nvest
conditions at that institution and to make sucn
E only just to add
to be practically enough discovered to
efficient measures to improve THIS
of the state onnned not %
nfrmes and hence in peculiar degree are
unabe % help themselves.
Four facts stand out prominently filed by
onesevenh of the deaths due
by the patient In practcay every
physical and mental recovery
prevails smulattve outdoor
provided and far as mas oeeh leu mas
The class Of attendants secured by the meage
these thousands
patients direct of men who are Ignorant rreSpo
sible frequently wholly inefficient
there an average
five physician which believer
the world and makes physically mpoS
attention to ean nouu
Hinder these four heads fall most of the charges
by another page
and appeal strongly to the humanity OF
o Georgia
TENTS and according
oe examinations nearly onehalf patients
tive tuberculosis a hand nearly
ten thousand against emergency
which might arise this money spent it had
been spent the hundred and
disease that year might
been authorities
sos against say fy pre-
deas-and the sOs Such decisions are dnsed
inhumanity" - -
is charged pernicious that the classification and
assignment patients Three hundred and twenty-five
epepcs and ytwo feeblemnded
children are scattered the aumve
PATIENTS the report which nave no ous
mess Continuing the report says that these
epept simply three hundred
sure that greater portion
trouble in wards where they are located que 10 ~
course is to COLOMBO them
AS an evidence obtained placing pa
pointed out that not only are ney
and patients but as an
proposition the plan has everything to commend It, % UNI
provided foone hundred ana o"t u
total of four products valued over
hyive dollars OF little more an
The commission plumbing closets
and unsantay 1.-The male convaescent
veritable fire trap; improper faclues LOT Ven
exist everywhere; the yards entirely too small Tor
the needs of the PATIENTS" the long category
The supervisor had under him hun
dred attendants commissioners visited the n
utona He has since died. ana the commits
of his incompetent assistants snouo De
appointed to succeed him - .., - ,.,, 81,
aadv OF the
radical change of like these 1t is wonder at
patients are restored to health
Incidentally that hree-fths Of the inmates
returned to the institution
female inmates to escape
and acquitted by jury but the
superintendent himself convinced OF their quit
that the jury was too reluctant 70 accept W "
the
contained the
the people OF Geor
sia Importance taking this matter
committee was appointed deal with
and earnestly reforms be instituted
LIMITS FOR THE INCOME TAX.
with which the general assembly