Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1912-01-04
sRaSS MISMASAGEMsHT CHARGED
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knew that would be the case. as they
Will commence to fatten up the new
patients and get them ready to work on
for the next Legislature, which meets
the first of the year, as they did before.
and when they get what money they
want, then it will be two years more at
starvation and hardship for the pa
tents.
| claim Catawba can be run success
fully, and with good results as it was
done the first twelve months, and
enough money has l,een given to the
ssnatorium by the State, which with
the proper management, it should have
been a great success, but as it is, it has
been a complete failure. as there has
not been a case of Improvement at Ca
tawba Sanatorium for the last twelve
months, to my knowledge.
The past conditions at Catawba are
known all over the State, as there has
been about one thousand patients who
have been there and left, and are scat
tered all around over the State.
To show you | am not the only one
kicking on Catawbs, l will say, some
time ago Col S. w. Williams, Atterney
General Of Virginia, was in Roanoke
and tolG an old friend of bis who had
been at Catswba, that in travelling
around over the State he had found a
great deal of complaint against Cataw-
ba SanatOrium, and be was afraid it
would be failure.
wish to say | can furnish names to
prove everything have charged in this
letter.
low LONG, OH LORD, HOW
LONG?
J. NJ. ELLIOTT.
October 9th. 1911.
2. Snow the above statement was
written on October 9th, and to show YOU
that knew what l was talking about
in regard to the SIX MONTHS RUL-
ING being unnecessary and also to show
that what | said in regard to the c.
tawba Relief Association being gotten
up by the officials at Catawba for an ad-
vertisement, and that they are misrep-
resenting the conditions at the sanato-
rum, you will see long communica-
ton in the Danville Bee of November
18th, written by W. p. Ruffin, Assist
ant Secretary and Treasurer of the Ca
tawba Relief Association, soliciting
help from the people to build two new
pavillions at Catawba to cost, when
completed n finished, ELEVEN
THOUSAND DOLLARS ISL, 200 OO
and that as soon as they were complet-
ed they would be filled at once, as the
waiting list was a very large one, and
scores of people who had in applications
were waiting on these buildings and
the capacity at Catawba was Ito ma
tients, but they had crowded it to lI6
patients, which they were now treat
ing. Now friend of mine and also an
eX-patlent at Catawba, was at the san
atorium November 18th and said the
patients told him there were lots of va
cant places there, and nobody coming
IN, and l received the letter published
below from DR.. Lloyd at Catawba dated
November Both, saying he had two va.
cancles and no applications on file to
NIL them and they were filing them I'D
with old patients. who had to leave un-
der the SIX MONTHS RULING, and l
was next on the lists, so it seems some
have already gone back; besides there
were twelve or fifteen old patients
whose names / can give, who never left
the sanatorium at all, if they had there
would have been twenty-five or thirty
beds there ever since August Besides
I have letters to show that DR.. Loyd
has been writing to the old patients to
come back as he had vacancies for them
for the last sixty days.
Catawba -natorium, Nov. 80, 1911.
Mr.. j. =: Elliott,
Roanoke, Va.
Dear Sir:-Just at present we have
two vacancies, and no applicants on the
waiting list to fill them, therefore, we
are filling up the vacancies with those
patients who left the sanatoTium ct the
time the six months ruling was en-
forced.
AS your name is next on the list. I
am writing to inquire if you wish to re-
turn to the sanatorium as patient.
OF course you will understand that
patients ere readmitted upon the same
terms as patients who have never been
In the sanatorium, therefore You viii be
subject to preliminary examination
by our examining physician, DR.. R. Nj.
Wiley, Salem, Va, before coming to
the sanatoFium.
We will have vacancy for you on
December l4th.
If we hear nothing from you by Tues
day, Dec. 9Th, we will consider that YOU
do not care to enter the sanatorium, and