Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1912-01-25
Is DISEASED MEAT
SOLD In. ROANOKE?
Further Startling Charges in Connection
with the Management of CataWha
SanaiOTium.

cchcNS, Nd-S OSSp lOg 1JAA
Tazewell Republican.
l trust am not bothering or taking
up too much of your time, but as you
see l have been put to great deal of
trouble and worry in this matter when
really was not physically able to stand
it, but as expect to devote the balance
of my life to this cause and am deeply
Interested in this matter / hope you
will bear with me and also use your pa
per and influence to help the cause, and
in the meantime will give you all the
information l can.
Now as to the management at Cataw-
ba selling those hogs, there is more in
it than you may think, in the first place
Mr. Martin tried to smuggle those hogs
into the Roanoke market, which shows
he knew better ond did not want it
known he was selling hogs, for in the
latter part of November, about the
9th, he came to Roanoke and contract
ed or promised to send Casters Com
mission House on Nelson st. about so
dressed hogs at So. 00 per hundred less
per cent for commission, and Martin to
pay freight. He was to make the first
shipment on Dec. 9Th and on Dec 9th
he made a shipment of 20 or 25 hogs to
butcher on Salem Ave. named Peters,
they were delivered on the seventh,
now on the 9th Martin was in Roanoke
and told Easter he had shipped him
some hogs that day, but he has never
shipped Easter any hogs yet. Peters
got his on the 9th and told DR.. Foster,
health officer, who got to come to my
house that day, that these hogs were at
Peters and had been at Catawba all
summer and saw these hogs fed on this
slop from the patients dining room my
self, and could give him the names of
several other ex-patients here in town
who would tell him the same.
He said he would go right down and
examine the hogs and also investigate
the matter, but he never went, he went
to his Office and telephoned Mr.. Price,
the produce inspector at the market, to
examine these hogs at Peters. He did
not tell Price where they came from.
MIR. Price who is or was farmer looked
at the hogs and could see nothing the
matter with them, of course, marked
them o. K. Now you can see Martin
made it appear he was going to send
these hogs to Casters Commission
House so if anyone was watching fer
these hogs, they would watch Casters
while he was getting rid of them through
Peters on another street
Besides it looks strange that Martin
can bay hogs and raise and fatten and
sell for about 81. so per hundred when
statistics show it cost $12 per hun
dred to buy and fatten hog, where you
have to fatten on corn. besides Martin
has to buy meat every year and he pays
from $40 to $12 hundred for it, now
that looks like somebody is selling hogs
for private bank account, and it looks
as if the resident physician and State
health commissioner were in on it or
they would not allow it, as they both
know all about it.
Then again they have five acre gar
den and pay man $40. 90 per month to
attend this garden, they buy no vegeta-
bles and they have 600 acres of land,
yet they only have two farm horses to
work this farm, they have head of
horses which is all the stock on the
place. They don't raise cattle, they
have two work horses, two carriage
horses used for nothing else. and one
private horse of the managers and one
private horse of the resident physician,
yet they pay out about 100000 year
for teams for hauling and blowing on
farm, they hire teams at from So to Sc
a day to plow, and have to hire teams
to haul all the coal used at the sanato-
rum from Catawba rosd crossing, 4
miles, they don't use any wood. A man
named Porter keeps two mule teams
busy hauling for Catawba Sanatorium,
besides a liveryman at Salem does all
the hauling from Salem, such as laun-
dry, express, etc.
Now by keeping two good mules and
driver they could save ten or twelve
hundred dollars a year, and beside es
see in the legislative auditing commit
tee report shows they have al employe ees
to 100 patients, and everything very
high at Catawba, that the rates pei
capita was times higher at Catawbs
than at any of the other State institu.
tions, and to wind up with you can defy
the authorities at Catawba to show
where there has been as many as 10 pa.
tients turned out of the Sanatorium
cured in the two years it has been open,
there has only been or A cases pro-
nounced cured, and that was done in
the first IL months, there was not q
case cured or improved in 1911. They
may be improving now as understand
they are feeding fine.
Yours respectfully.
j. M. ELLIOTT.