Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-02-20

| Dr. InOlipSoh. No, si' iO1's
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1 Chairman Carothers: We will now
hear from DR.. Griffin.
| DR.. Griffin: | just have this to say,
| that for a number Of years now my
contact with DR.. Saunders has been
anything but pleasant. She has made
| herself very disagreeable, discourteous
and rude. She has treated not only
myself, but all the rest of them-we
are a unit in that-it is not only among
| us here but my nurses all talk about
the way she treats us. They want to
avoid her. They don't want to go over
to the diet kitchen because they are
! afraid they might come in contact with
her. or some of the other two Of them
Miss Irwin and Miss Hurtelle-and 1t
| is so plainly shown that she had that
| feeling towards me that tried TO
avoid her, just as much as possible.
DR.. Thompson knows that when come
| in the room in the morning, into the
office, that I greet them just as pleas
antly as / know how. / say: Good
morning" l get absolutely no sign of
recognition from DR.. Saunders, and
DR.. Saunders has on several occasions
meddled with my affairs. She has. es-
pecially so during DR.. Thompsons Ill
ness a few years ago, when had
charge Of that department She gave
| contradictory ORDERS and she has made
remarks which were rather Of a slur-
ring character, and I think-it appears
| to me-that she seems to assume
charge Of most everything round here.
We can't make any complaints In the
laundry, because she has charge OF
it, Even the dining room. in my de-
partment she has apparently held that
and the kitchen-if / were to make any
complaint about the things in the kitch-
en- there would be an awful howl. And
| 1t is the same thing with the amuse-
ment hall and the chanel and the Of
flee. Some time ago they had meet
ing upstairs there. l came in next
morning and my desk was gone. l had
all my stationery and stamps and writ
ing material in ii, and / simply had to
be iconvenienced. l don't know wheth-
er she gave the order for that table
| to be sent upstairs or not but I sup
pose she must have known something
about it. She did not protest, and GER
tainly when she wants to make any
changes with the office / don't think
she consults DR.. Thompson-I know
she doesn't me. She will upset every
thing in there. Nothing is said to the
rest Of us. She is just the whole
cheese-that is all. That is just my
experience that have had. That
tie friction came up-l don't know
we'll. I won't say any more unless you
wish to ask me some questions.
Examination by Governor Blease:
Q. How long have you been out
here? A. / have been here now-on
the 1st Of January I will have been
here nine years.
Q. Have you seen Dr. Cooper out
here since the election of DR.. Black
burn? A. Yes. sir.
Q. How often? A I have seen his
car out there very frequently, and
have seen him in the dispensary sew
eral times.
O. Who was with him? A. When
I saw him in the dispensary he was by
himself-just sitting in the dispensary
l don't know what he was doing-I
just walked in-I was in there at the
time myself.
Q. That is since he has been defeat
ed as physician out here? A. Yes. sir.
Q. And he has been given the priv
ilege here? A. Almost every Sunday
have seen his car, standing out in
'front.' didn't always see him.
Q. would like to ask you one ques-
tion-and it is not intended as a re-
Election on anybody-is DR.. Cooper
married man? A. l think he was
married about ten days ago.
Q. Recently married? A. Yes, sir.
Q. Is Dr. Saunders a married lady?
A. l don't know that she is.
Q. DR.. Saunders is a single lady?
A. I suppose that she is.
Q. This is Dr. Saunders's home, isn't
it? A. Yes. sir; think she is suppos-
ed to occupy rooms upstairs.
Q. Young gentlemen often call on
young ladies, and are often sweet
hoo VIC MIGHT
enough to say that l meant something
else. OF course, if he was out here
courting, nobody would bar him his
privilege. l asked this question so it
could be known that am not trying to
reflect upon DR.. Saunders.
Dr. Saunders: l would like to say
that DR.. Griffin made his rounds about
an hour a day and he left. l had
charge of everything in his absence,
for the simple reason that there was
nobody else here to do it. did every
thing that came up, for, as tell you, l
have never turned deaf ear to re-
quest from any employe in the hos
pital-for help in my department or
anybody else's. II contradictory orders
were given in DR.. Thompson's depart
ment, while DR.. Griffin was in charge,
it was in his absence, when l did the
best / could. AS to his remarking on
the Office and all these things, l will
frankly confess that during my stay
here have done everything could for
improvement in everything about the
hospital, with no feeling of taking ev-
erything on myself, but through spir-
it of usefulness. AS to the laundry and
the diet kitchen we have done the best
we could for DR.. Griffin, as for any
body else I am not in charge Of the
laundry. 1t is simply because one of
the nurses happens to be there that l
get that from DR.. Griffin. The condi-
tions in the colored male dining room
were bad, like all the rest. Dr. Babcock
asked me to help him make the service
little better I had nothing to do
with moving the table. The reference
to my being a single woman is an in
suit DR.. Griffin knows / am single
DR.. Griffin: l merely answered the
question.
DR.. Babcock: You said, Il suppose
So"
DR.. Saunders: l repeat, it is an in
suit.
way, if you so understood it. I did not
mean it as an insult at all. I certainly
have no reflection, l must say, on DR..
Saunders'S character-moSt emphati-
cally-and 1 most humbly beg your
pardon if you took it that way. l GER
tainly meant nothing of that sort. Cen
tlemen, l would like for that to go on
the record. She says l spent only an
hour day during DR.. Thompson's alb
sence. I think she is mistaken about
that. received no instructions at that
time from the superintendent to come
back in the afternoon, as | did do here
recently in DR.. Thompson's last vaca-
toni did then receive instructions to
come back in the afternoon, which
did. Well, now, one case that l refer
red to, in which she gave an order con-
trary to mine, one of the men in there
whose throat was practically closed up
with tonSilitiS-he had very high
temperature-and l had given instruc-
tions for him to eat nothing but
plain, simple milk diet. l found out
the next day that she had sent tray
in there containing all kinds Of things
meats. vegetables, breads and all
kinds of that sort-and another nurse
on the ward said that DR.. Griffin had
given instructions for the patient not
to eat that-he is on a liquid diet. AS
| understand it, she sent word back,
That is all right, just let him have it."
Dr. Saunders: The man was l.. l..
Perry?
Dr. Griffin: Yes. ma'am.