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occasionally hsd dishes, tho TACK
wards were not supplied with
TRUSTEES DECEIVED.

Mr.. Jones also caid that venercaily dis
eased patents were not segregated and
he did not know that auy precautions
were taken to keep their laundry separ-
ate. Attorney Gibson stated that persons
AFFLICTED with syphilis were only admitted
when they were in the third stage Of the
disease when they could not transmit it.
1t was always known when the trustees
would visit the institution and things
were put into shape for their visit. Jones
always knew the exact rvutc Of tho trus-
tees and kept ono ward ahead OF them
to see that everything was all right.
while Captain Haigh accompanied them.
Visitors were not shown the back wards
which were always permeated by an I'M
pleasant odor. and where the contrast
in other respects to the front wards
would not be pleasant.
BIG DOSE OF ELECTRICITY.
There we're days, said the witness. when
he did not know Of DR.. Taylor or any
other doctor visiting the mems ward. Once
patient was taken into the basement at
nine o'clock in the morning for an cleo.
trical treatment and forgotten. When
the patient did not appear for his noon
meal. Jones went to look for him and
found him in the basement with an cleo
trical apparatus still attached to him
and still working. There was one attend
ant who frequently became intoxicated
and resigned. On one occasion this man
while In an intoxicated condition walked
into DR.. Taylors ONCE where the witness
heard him in conversation with DR.. Tay.
lor. The attendant was then sent back
to his work in the wards.
EVERYTHING SHIP.SHAPE.
The testimony Of Mr.. and Mrs. Edward
D. Quinlan of Bennington. who were
attendants at the institution from July s
LOIS, until August s. 1915. was favorable
to the retreat. Both had worked in vari
Gus other institutions and thought tn,
Brattleboro retreat compared favorabl,
with the other ones. Neither had seen
man or woman patient abused The men,
as given by Mrs. Quinaln. included mea
three times day. plenty of vegetables
with the noon meal, tea or coffee. breax
and butter. etc. The menu as stated b,
Mr.. Quinlan was practically the same ex
cept that he didn't have meat for supper
The food was said to be well cooked anl
plentiful.
| Mr.. Quinlan was very indefinite in re
calling conversation he had had a few
days ago with DR.. c. w. Bartlett Of Ben
nington. and was unable to say whethe
or not he had ever told Bartlett that con
ditions at Brattleboro were worse thai
stated in the newspapers; that patient
there were treated worse than at any
where else he had ever worked. OF tina
he didn't feel at liberty to talk freel.
because he was still q nurse. The witnes
recalled having had a conversation will
DR.. Bartlett, but that was all, although
Mr.. Reirdon of the committee pressed hin
lizard on this point.
James Tully Of West Haven said tina
he had taken patients to the Brattlebor
retreat when he was a police office
in Fair Haven, and so far as he kney
they were we'll treated. He denied tina
he had told one Michael J. Green. a drug
gist of West Haven. that patient name
Ranney. whom he had taken there, ha
been hit on the head with billy an
otherwise abused.