The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-02-25

@. You didn't object? A. No, nam.
@. And wasn't this case OF grave
Importance? A. Yes, nam.
@. The case Of intra-cranial pres
sure. You know of it and the work
there? A. Yes, nam.
@. Do you feel that 1t was any
disadvantage to the patient? A. do
not.
Not Less Womanly.
@. And do you feel that I was any
less womanly for doing it? A. do
not.
@. And you know it was a Was
sernan test that 1 did? A. l do not
remember. You did several of the
Wasserman tests but do not remem-
Der for that particular man.
@. Well, you consented to my doing
it? A. For the patient? l can not re-
call whether for that particular man
a Wasserman test was made or not.
@. But didn't I tell you, after
completed the white female depart
ment, that every time I made a run
would fill out the racks with your
patients until DR.. Blackburn was
ready A. You did.
@. May ask you WHOM you wrote
the letter Of condemnation that you
presented on December 18th? A. 1t
was written on the morning.
G. Hadn't I this very week done
this work for you? A. do not re-
member whether it was that week or
not. 1t was not long before that.
@. You do not deny that I have?
A. No nam.
Gave Help Freely.
@. Have I ever failed to help you in
any way that you asked me? A. can
not remember single time.
@. When Improvements ware made,
was there ever any objection to its
being extended to the white male de-
partment? A. | can not recall. be-
cause 1 did not know all Of the i'm
provements that were being made in
the white female department.
Q. How many patients have you,
you say? A. have about $50 today.
@. How many nurses? A. Includ-
ing night watches I have %.
@. Have you any white women
nurses in your department doing med
ical work? A. None.
@. You have no women in your de-
partment doing actual nursing for the
sick? A. None.
@. There is no white women in
your department excepting in the din-
ing room? A. No, nam.
@. And she is doing dining room
work? A. Yes. nam.
@. And so the white male patients
ordinarily have white male nurses?
A. Yes. nam.
@. Have you ever asked for sup
plies that you did not get? A. I am
sorry to say that we did not get patch
| work.
O. But when you wanted any little
supplies you always got it? A. Yes
nam.
@. IF you call loud enough you US
ually got what you wanted. did you
not? A. Yes. in way got it.
O. And you didn't feel that you
we're in any way required to ask me
for what you wanted. did you?
/ Couldn't you get it as we'll as /? A
Latterly have appealed to you. be-
cause I knew you were in charge ot
the dining room.
@. In the ordering Of drugs, could
not YOU have ordered what you want
ed? Has there eevr bee many objec'
ton to your white male patients hav'
ing any kind of drugs that they need
ed? A. don OF recall. did not know
Of what was being ordered. Probably
some things that were ordered
would need but would not order it Il
1t wasn't there. In other words. | felt
! that I should have been spoken to n
regard to 1t. through respect and tc
be familiar with what was gotten.
Trained Employees.
O. Whenever there was new EN-.
ploye in the Office, did you ever OBJ
ject to my training in the new en-
ploye and giving you the use of the
old trained employe? A. No.
@. So it was my part to train in the
new employees? A. Yes.
@. Didn't you get the full benefit oi
the training? A. Sometimes. am not
now.
@. Well, is that my fault? A. We'll
it looks to me like it IS. You insisted
on your work. being kept up and
can not get mine done.
@. Did you ever complain to DR.
! Babcock? A. AS stated in my com
, plant, did not. knowing the exist
| ing friction in the management.
@. Something was said awhile age
about Miss Davis being sick recently
Do YOU know what is the matter with
her? A. Well. l can not say posi-
lively. but heard that it was mumps
@. Mumps is an infectious disease?
A. Yes. nam
@. Is it quite fair to bring her back
to the asylum while she is suffering
with it? A. I heard Of her being on
the street TO- two or three weeks be.
! fore she came back.
G. Do you know under whose care
she was? A. No.
O. You know that I have always
cared for the women, the laundry wo-
men and all? A. When they were on
the premises.
Visited Sick Nurses.
@. And you knew in the white wo-
mems department that when they
were sick l went out to see them? A.
| can not say that you visited them
professionally, but knew that you
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