Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-11-17

OF attendants and employees has been
Inadequate and disorganized. Foreign
born persons unacauainted and un-
suited fer an American institution have
been put in places of responsibility,
ard the whole hospital is apparently
being run for the convenience and
pleasure Of these officers rather than
to help or cure the unfortunate insane.
Painful punishments are inflicted
upon patients and torturing remedies
used and applied by incompetent per-
sons. In several instances persons
have been employed and permitted for
long periods of time to act as physi-
clans at this hospital, and to COM
pound, prescribe and administer drugs
without being registered as physicians
or druggists. as provided by the laws
of the State. This infraetion of the
law regardless of the result upon the
patients has been long continued
against the protest of your COM
plainant.
The above named officers have ar
rosated to themselves duties imposed
by law upon the steward and treas
urer have taken from him the pur-
chase of supplies and the care and
management. of the farm. They have
expended large sums of money which
ought to have been used for the COM
fort of the patients, and have provid-
ed luxurious apartments and expen-
sive supplies for the superintendent;
they have purchased horses, COWS and
other animals at eXorbitant prices,
and have done part of this after be-
ing advised by the attorney general
that they had no legal right so to do;
they have conducted the farm in an
unbusinesSlike manner to the loss to
the institution of approximately $1,000
during the current year They have
supplied the superintendent with the
repairs, chauffeur and running eX-
penses of an automobile: they have
permitted him at the expense of the
State to beard at his apartments in
the institution for two years. female
person unemployed in the institution
and III no way connected herewith.
'They have made, caused or permit
ted to be made improper and scandal
Gus records of the institution; permit
ted inmates t2 go at large and to eS-
cape. They have crowded large num-
Lers OF patients into small and poorly
ventilated rooms: have kept many of
them in an uncleanly condition; have
refused to permit patients to wear
proper clothing provided by relatives
and friends.
Persons in the employ of the institu-
ton have confined the naked bodies of
patients with blankets wrung from
boiling hot water and unmindful of
the cries and distress and torture of
the patients have continued said ap-
plication of hot blankets for several
hours at Il time until said patients,
with suffering, have short
" thcreafterwards died, and likewise |
in many instances said persons have |
poured liquid feed into the lungs of
patients instead of into the stomachs
thereof, whereby said patients have
shortly afterwards died in great suf
fcring: and many other grievous
wrongs and instances of neglect have
said officers permitted to be done to-
wards said patients.
DR.. Henry W. Miller, alias Harry W.
". Miller, the superintendent, is in
and temperamentally un-
suited for the position. arrogant with
employees. and devoid of sympathy for
he unfortunate patients: inattentive
. the duties of his Office, engaged in
private practice To the extent that he
sas charged pay for examination of
patients as to the necessity of admit
ing them to the hospital
"The undersigned in his capacity as
rustee of said institution. has inves-
israte many of the foregoing charges
ind knows them To be true, and as to
he others he is credltably Informed