The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-03-05
IMPROVEMENTS NEEDED
AT SOLDIERS HOME
HOUSE Committee Reports That Bet.
ter Food and Sanitary Conditions
Should be Provided, as Well :,
az Resident Physician.

The report OF the house committee
appointed to Investigate the condition
surrounding the care and treatment of
the veteransNat the Confederate Sol
diers' Home In Richmond made IA re-
port to the house of delegates yester-
day setting forth that the food lacked
sufhcfent variety, particularly in meats,
that there should be Improvement in
the preparation of the food, that the
sanitary conditions should be improved,
and that a resident physician, always
accessible to the veterans, should be
provided for.
, The report recommended an in
crease of $4,000 be made to the ap-
preparation for the home for the year
1913, to provide for the above better
ments and for a better food supply.
and for an increase of $4,000 to the
1919 appropriation. No action was
taken by the house.
The committee report reads as fol-
lows;
THE report of the committee COM
posed Of the undersigned members,
appointed by your honorable body to
ascertain and report to the house upon
the sanitary and other conditions ex-
listing at the Confederate Soldiers
Home. Richmond, Virginia.
Your committee bees leave to re-
the said institution to ascertain as full
~ as we could In the time at our COM
mand, the facts as to the situation
and conditions existing there, your
committee finds:
Il. That some OF the sanitary con-
ditions, particularly as to the princl-
pal closet set apart for the use OF the
inmates of tho home. are not salts
factory.
A T4h.4 tb,~n In -nk . u.,Ma.ia w.n
riety In the food prepared for the in
mates of the home, particularly In
meats, which are provided for them.
the men are growing more and more
feeble, and that there should be i'm
provement in the preparation OF the
food, that this could be partly accom-.
piished In the installation OF proper
kitchen equipment in the place OF
the somewhat Anticipated one that the
home has been compelled, for want
of means, TO rely upon In the past
%. That the services of a resident
physician, who shall always be ac-
cessible when needed for the relief
of the inmates of the home, and OF
an inferno to assist him in looking
after the inmates OF the home. are
very much needed and should be pro-
yided.
~. That In order to remedy the con-
ditions in the home which may be
complained OF. 1t will be necessary to
increase the appropriation. and in ac-
cordance with the request of the board
OF visitors, copy of which Is hereto
annexed, we would earnestly recon-
mend that this be done. We there
fore respectfully recommend that the
request of the board OF visitors OF the
Soldiers Home be granted to this ex-
tent
THAT $4,000 additional appropria-
ton he made for the year 1918. or
so much thereof as is necessary. to
cover the necessary cost OF provio~og
modern equipment in the kitchen,
for necessary hetterments and i'm
provements to the sanitary condition
of the home. TO secure the services
|of a resident physician and an inferno
and to enable the board to provide a
greater variety of food. particularly in
the matter OF meats: and,
That for the year, 1919 the sum
of $4,000 be provided for the home
for the above objects other than the
betterment and improvements of the
kitchen.
Your committee has nothing but
commentator TO express for the
thoughtful, faithful and seIf-sacrtficing
services which the members OF the
board of visitors of this Soldiers Home
have rendered in conducting it's af-
fairs during the thirty years that they
have had charge of it's management.
Respectfully submifte John w
Carter. William A Anderson, Peter
Winston, J, 8, Musgrave. ". r. Pull
Ter. committee"
The resolution adopted by the board
OF visitors. and referred to in the above
report. is as follows:
The board of visitors Of the Sol
diers' Home would respectfully sug
gest to the committee. in compliance
with it's request for such suggestion,
that the sum allowed for maintenance
of the Soldiers Home be increased
to an amount equal to one hundred
thousand dollars, which will allow the
installation Of additional kitchen, mess
hall, medical and sanitary equipment"