Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1912-01-04

The resident physicians time has al
ways been taken up at the Mountain
view Sanatorium, private sanatorium
about one mile from Cstawba Sanato-
rum, where be is also resident physi-
clan. There he gets five dollars for ex-
amining each patient when they come
IN. and three dollars a week thereafter.
The Catawba Ssnatorium is left to the
assistant resident physician, who is al
ways some Young student just out of
school, and has never had any practice
or experience. Consequently there has
been no cases of improvement at Ca
tawba for the last twelve months.
Whenever patient would begin to
lose weight and tell the resident physi-
cian he was not getting enough to eat.
he would advise the patient to 90 down
to the Mountain View Sanatorium. as
they were prepared to feed better down
there. although the State had spent
about Sarty thousand dollars for buildings
and improvements alone, and the Noun
tain View had not spent one thousand
The Mountain View Sanatorium charp-
ed ten dollars per week, and the resi-
dent physician got three dollars of that.
and they claim each patient cost ten
dollars week at Catawba Sanatorium
When you want to leave Catawba Won
have to give two weeks notice so thew
can get some one in your place, if not.
you have to pay for two weeks, but if
you want to go down to Mountain View
Sanatorium, you can go any time Won
want to, you don't have to give any no.
tice.
Patients at Catavba Sanatorium are
not treated with the proper respect by
the officials or nurses. Ihsye seen sew
eral lady patients shamefully mistreated
by nurses, and can give names of both
nurses and patients. Some of the
nurses are all right. 1 believe the head
nurse would like to do what is right If
she was allowed to, for when she came
there in June, 1911, she tried to get the
patients drinking water, but she could
do nothing, and two or three of the
other nurses would do things for the
oeneht OF the patients. but they were
not allowed to.
Now, l want to explain the treatment
as too food: Patients who are able to
walk to the dining room, are supposed
to eat what is on the table. If YOU can
not what is on the table, you eat moth
ing. You are not allowed to order any,
thing, not eVe71 an egg cOokek in anu shape.
or rdto either. You have to get so weak
you can't get to the table, and then
they put you in bed, and you can get
soft boiled eggs; that is called the diet.
You stay on that about two weeks, and
then you are ready to be sent home to
die. When you are up there they will
not give you what you can eat, so as to
huild you up. You have to get down
hrst, and then it is too late.
For the last eight months (up to the
time left, AuGgdst l, 1911 the meai
for the table consisted of roast beef fo,
break Ga asst; boiled beef for dinner anc
Oeef hash for supper, and no attention
was given to the preparation of that
About three-fourths of that beef was
thrown in the slop barrel, yet they kep,
on buying it. They must get a rebate
on beef. They keep a bill-of-fare tc
show the State Board of Health, which
Is taken from the table in the staff,
dining room. Any one looking at il
would think the patients got very good
food.
NOW, as for the business manager. he
is the joke of Catawba. He knows inst
about as much running Catawba Sana-
torlum as some ten-year-old child
Through his ignorance and inability he
Is costing the sanatorium thousands of
dollars each year, and as result no one
gets any benefit, and the patients have
to suffer on account of it. He WAS nut
IN Office by his hrother-in-law who is n
state legislator. and also the founder of
the Catawba Sanatorium. and il kent
there through his influence. althouob
knowing he is not capable of filling the
position.
Now to show that he is not capable
or else there is something wrong at Ca
tawba: Last July Capt. Carlton Nc
Carthy, who is State Accountant, was
at Catawba, and one of the patients
was telling him Of the poor food thew
we're getting. and he said the books at
the Marion Asylum showed that each
patient cost the State ONE HUNDRED
AND SIXTY DOLLARS (sl6O. OO) a
year, which included transportation and
clcthes, and they we're furnished good
food, while the books at Catawba Sana-
torium showed that each patient cost
lNyE HUNDRED AND TWENTY
iDoLLARS ($52O OO) per year, which
iid not include either transportation or
oYothes, yet there is always a kick at
atswba about food and you never hear
rything from MariOp At cstswba