Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1919-02-22
TELLS OF
CONDITIONS At CUT
DR. e. +. Maguire Refutes State.
ments That Prisoners Were
Not Properly Treated
NEGLECT DIET ORDERS

Statements MADE ny oIner Witnesses
that patients had not been given med
ical attention at the House Of Correc-
tion were refuted yesterday BY
Dr. q. Frank Mcguire for more than
two years physician at the Cut The
scene of the Lankford hearing was
yesterday shifted to the House of Cor
rection with the board of prison con-
troll present
The point raised BY the Prisoners
AID Association was that prisoners
committed 10 the institution are not
examined upon entrance and hence
arc liable to spread disease among
other inmates. Dr. Mcguire admitted
that such examination was not made.
explaining that he did not have the
proper facilities
The institution he said. has no
sterilizing equipment which would be
necessary for this practice. 1t was
stated that the equipment was ordered
about two months ago
Couldn't Get MIX And Eggs
Attorney Philip b. Perlman. who IS
representing the Prison Board, called
the attention Of the witness to the
statement made yesterday by Mrs.
Catherine Beary penitentiary matron,
who worked at the Cut for Q short
time. that II had been impossible to
obtain milk and eggs for sick prisoners
and asked II 1t was true.
DR.. Mcguire said that II was true
and that he had several times ordered
such diet FOR patient III the hospital
but It was never furnished them He
was asked whose business It would
be to furnish milk and eggs. and he
answered, i suppose Il would be the
warien's duty .
Quotes LankEoFd's Reply
when asked Ii he had ever brought
the matter to the attention Of Warden
Lankford. he said that he had, and
quoted the warden as replying that he
could not find them
Under the direction Of Attorney
perIman, Dr. Mcguire took up iii de-
tan the specific Instances Of alleged
failure to give medical attention to
iii inmates, made by Mrs. Grace p.
Burnett and Mrs Beary at yesterday 5
session, III the penitentiary He de-
MED these allegations and said they
did receive medical attention, and
proof of 1t was that these persons
when they left the Institution we're
either cured or much improved
The trial was transferred to the
House of Correction I'd order to So
cure the testimony Of some Of the In
mates and ofEaciaIs Of the institution
who could not conveniently be brought
to Baltimore. Especial interest is cen
tered III the examination of Or. Ma
guire. The Prisoners Aid Society
has made an Issue of the medical at
tention given inmates Of the institu-
tion. which has had the effect Of max
| ing the doctor b co-defendant with
L4ank10rd, though no specific charges
have been laid Against him.
Another Interesting possibility Of
the day is that Warden Lankford will
hsmself take the stand To testify in
his own defense.
Up to the present time the testi-
mony includes the following state
ments
That an inmate was allowed to die
In a cell after an Illness OF some
weeks. without having been removed
10 the hospital
That q young woman in the ad-
Yanced stages Of loathsOuae disease
was allowed TO lie IN cell with dtes
swarning All over her and for whom
| 1t was impossible to secure even 4
suitable diet
That there has besn immoral as
sociatIon og men and women
That the food served was 50 bad,
the meat. ia fact being described "a
rotten. that the inmates went on d
hunger strike
That the institution Is infested with
bedbugs and roachea.
That the crowdfng Of cells leads 20
mineral practices among the women
and tends 70 corrupt those who are
innocent oG immortality
That one woman was compelled to
share her cot for several months wtth
woman who was suffering from .
cancer.
While some witnesses have given
this testimony, other Witnesses have
described the conditions obtaining Il
the House Of Correction III an entirely
different light, II has been said thai
the Institntion y clean. that the IA
mates ara wall clothed, wen ED and
ii good health. The charge that brute
force has been uaed ID naaimtainfng
discipline has been deAied By witness
ea time and again.
FerrAeg Legislator EaReA
Roy N. Custer, of Baltimore. mem.