The Prescott daily news., 1915-09-16
SPECIAL COMMITTEE
 HAS FILED REPORT
Majority and Minority Reports Members of Committee Re-
 fused to Sign-Is Accompan- led by 3S4 Pages Testimony.

Stature to investigate the management ot the State Hospital for Nervous Diseases has finished it's work and submitted its report to the governor.
 There are a majority and minority reports. One report that already sub mittde is signed by Senators J. o. A. Bush and J. L. Carter, and Represen- tatlves Lee Cazort and Joe Joiner refused to sign it, but say they will submit another. The fifth member. Representative w. o. Young of Ben ton county, is not here, but Senator Bush says that he is confident he would sign it if he were.
 The report is accompanied by 384 typewriter pages of testimony
 The investigation began Feb. 15, when George A. Bone, an expert ac- countant of Memphis, began work on the institution and Board, concluding his work soon after the adjournment of the Legislature. Only a part of the testimony taken has been trans cribed, on account of a lack of funds to pay the stenographer.
 It is stated that there were 1124 patients in the Hospital Sept. 1, 1911, when Dr. J. L. Greene took charge, with only two assistants and 'there can be no doubt that this force was entirely inadequate to perform the work as it should have been done" Before Dr. Greene came there was no alienist in charge, ccnsumptives were mixed indiscriminately with other pa tients, and the hospital was full with over 300 insane persons in the various county jails.
 It cost the state about S300,000 a year to equip and maintain the insti- tuition, and the committee declares that the unfortunate inmates are entitled to the kindest care and the most scientific and humane treatment that can be had" The committee says: "The undisputed evidence shows that a class of inhuman, cruel attend ants had charge of some of the wards, especially Ward No. 9, where the poor hopeless patients were beaten, stamp ed and choked into insensibility by these brutal attendants"
 When Dr. Green took charge provi- sions were made for all the insane of the state, many abuses were stopped "the cruel and inhuman treatment of inmates by unmerciful and brutal at tendants was broken up and the of : lending parties discharged and not given the opportunity to take revenge on the patient when their cruel con duct was reported. It was shown by competent testimony that under the skilfull administration ov Dr. Greene conditions were greatly improved, and his "presence in the institution seemed to be benediction to the unfortu- nate inmates who had been subjected to such neglect and savage cruelty that would bring the blush of shame to the keeper of penitentiary. Un- der his wise and humane management light, life and hope sprang up in a thousand hearts"
 Considerable space is given to the construction of the central heating plant, during which time the relations between Dr. Greene and the Board became strained. The Board is criti- cised for drawing $30,000 from the current expense fund to apply on the cost of the plant. "There seems to have been a general looseness or eX- travagance in the expenditure of money in the construction Of the plant, as well as in the management of the institution" says the report. The committee does not agree as to the propriety of the Boards purchase of an automobile.
 The Board was required to meet once a month, the members to receive S5 per day and cents per mile trav- eled. One member, R. c. Love, from April 10. 1914, to Dec. II, 1914, was paid for 2SS days and 31 round trips of 444 miles each, total of $2,296.3O. One member would sometimes remain at the capitol several days looking after interests of the institutions, re- ceiving regular pay therefor. The committee does not think this justified under the law.
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