Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1912-01-04
MISMANAGEMENT CHARGED
A Serious Condition of Affairs at Catawba Sao.+o.
rum is the Claim Made By Former lnmate---
"A Graphic Pen Picture of the Conditions of
the Wards of the State

each patient pays FIVE DOLLARS
(S5.OV per week or TWO HUNDRED
AND SIXTY DOLLARS (s26O. OO) per
year, which is ONE HUNDRED DOL
LARS (S10O OO more than it cost tn
keep patient at Marion. They also
have to pay ONE DOLLAR AND A
HALF (S1.5O) to the sanatorium for
transportation to and from the railroad
station, which amounts to a great deal
and in addition to this, the State annro.
priated EIGHTY-FIVE THOUSAND
DOLLARS ($S5, ,OOO.OO,) Now thew
claim they are broke; that all Of the
money has been spent, and appeals are
being sent out to the people for help for
money to build new buildings, and rule
made to limit patients to SIX MONTHS
on account of the large number (54) of
patients waiting to get in. Now where
are those FlFTY-FOUR C54) patients?
They have not showed up at Catawba.
although it has been three months since
this ruling was made, and some of the
old patients were sent home. and thew
have been advertising for patients to
70 put in their applications ever since
this ruling was made, and yet they have
got some twelve or fifteen of the old
patients there yet. There are patients
there who have been there any where
from SIX to twenty-eight months. vet
some have to leave at the end of SIX
MONTHS. did not know q State in
stltution could discriminate in this wav.
Iney have empty beds there now. so
why was this SIX MONTHS RULING
necessary? If they can't fill what
places they have by advertising. whv
did they send out this appeal to the peo-
pie for help to build new buildings?
They say this Catawba Relief Associa-
ton was gotten up by the patients. II
can prove it was gottan up by DR..
Williams, DR.. Lloyd and A. Lambert
Martin. DR.. Williams asked the old
patients who had been there over SIX
MONTHS, to call meeting, which was
about July 20, and stated at the meet
ing that if the patients would raise
s E V E N THOUSAND DOLLARS
$4,000 OO to build two new payilions
that he and Mr.. Martin could get them
built IN about three months, and he
thought that he could arrange it with
the State Board of Health. so all of the
old patients who had to leave could re-
main at Catawba until these buildings
were put up, and that they could then
go In these buildings indefinitely. He
did this to get it started, so the ps-
uents asked him to appoint commit
tee. DR.. Lloyd announced the commit
tee at the dinner table and told them to
meet In Assembly Hall at 4 D. m. and
discuss the plans to raise this money
and that DR.. Williams, DR.. Loyd and
Mr.. Martin would attend the meeting
and do whatever they could to help the
patients. was one of the COMMITTEES.
out learned that / was not to be very
long. The committee met at D. m
but none of the officials were there. and
IN the mean time, Dr.. Lloyd gaue one of
p'e conam'Heenaen notice that he mould hare 10
ssue "a taDo lOeeks, as iCoiild all the rest b,,t
ne as there yet so he notified the committee
and they did not understand that a,
least some of them did not. but did.
80 the committee adjourned to see DR.
Williams and get him to explain. an6
we found DR.. Williams and DR.. I,ovG
and held meeting in DIR. Loyd's office
Dr. Williams told the committee. which
tnen consisted of SIX, that the old ma
tents could not stay at the sanator;nn,
until the buildings were completed. but
each one could leave an application with
Dr. Lloyd, when they left and each ona
would be taken back when the buildings
were finished, which would be abont
three months, and he wanted the com
mittee to get up a letter asking for
nelp, and he wanted them to exnIoir
fully in the letter why the SIX
MONTHS RULING had to be made. 7
sa" what they were trying to do, and I
said to DR.. Williams that his idea aho,+
the new buildings might be all right
put IL would take some time to raise
this money, if they raised it at all and
then 1t would take some time to com
piete the buildings, and the patients
leaving had not the chance of getting
in these buildings in SIX MONTHS
and they had no place to go to take the
open-air treatment, and thought we
should do something to get place for
these patients to go to at once. as thew
mad been used to open-air and could NOT
get 1t at home. DR.. Williams said ba
could not help in case like that that
the patients would have to do that
themselves. What he wanted was
pathetic appeal to the people for helm
and explaining the necessity of tbs
SIX MONTHS RULING. and he wopld
take it to Richmond: and have it pub-
lisned' and have q thousand comics
made of it, and send them to the chair-
man and secretary whom he appointed
to send out to individual people. He