Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-09-14
SOLQNS' COMMITTEE.
REPORTS RESULTS
Of SAINT: INQUIRY
SUPERVISORS GIVE SOUTH SIDE.
INSTITUTION CLEAN BILL OF
HEALTH AT CONCLUSION OF
PROLONGED INVESTIGATION.

Members OF the committee of the
board of supervisors who We're APP
pointed to investigate the LA Sale
county tuberculosis sanitarium, late
this morning rendered their report to
the board of supervisors, placing no
blame for the recent trouble which
was aired at the June meeting of the
board of supervisors on the sanitar-
ium.
They stated in a report filed with
the board that they had investigated
scripulouby clean, and everything
well kept and in order. They claim.
ed that they had talked with the var
ious patients, found them well salts
fled, were receiving good food, and
were accorded courteous care and at.
tention by the nurses, and seemed
we'll satisfied with the institution.
IL stated that the various nurses
were well chosen and were qualified
to render competent services.
1t stated that the management was
doing everything in its power to make
the pNtients comfortable, and the
board was capable and sincere in its
efforts to maintain the highest stand
ard of efficiency.
The report CT the special committee
was brought IN and read, but was not
signed by all the members of the com
mite, Supervisors Haskins being the
dissenting member, stating that he
did not approve the report in its pre-
sented form.
The report was based on one com.
plainant who had been in the hospita
previous to the trouble, but had left
on her cwr free viii. Miss Caroline
Weekly Of Peru was the complainant.
She, 1t Is alleged, was admitted to the
sanitarium in June, 1920 and re.
manned for two years. when she be.
came i'll and was removed to the Hi
nois Valley hospital to be operated on
for appendicitis When she left the
hospital Miss Bertha Logan, superin.
tendent of the sanitarium, promised
her the same room upon her return
But when she returned the room was
occupied by a patient whose condi
ton was such that she could not be
removed.
The condition of the hospital was
very good and all the buildings ana
equipment were in the very best OF
shape.
The report was signed by e. B. Wi
liams and O. NJ. Andrews of the com
mittee. The committee in its re
port recommended that the matter be
referred to the board of sanitariuu
trustees who, in their opinion, should
be left the entire management of the
sanitarium.
Haskins said he had refused to sign
the report as his ideas and those OF
the balance of the committee did not
concur. He stated that Miss Welky
was a practical nurse and had con.
tracted tuberculosis in the perform
ance of her duties. Suffering from a
nerve trouble and the dreaded disease
she became little troublesome, and
then the management of the santa
rum began giving her morphine to
quiet her. For the last eleven months
her said, she had become addicted to
the drug habit.
Haskins also stated that DR. Petit
said the girl was very good patien
at his institution.
<. Andrews then called in DR.. Roberts,
who stated that efforts were being
made to discredit the county institu
ton. He retracted the charges made
by Supervisor Haskins.
NJ. J. Charley moved that the mat
ter be settled in the sanitarium board
and do away with scandal which
would do no good and great deal OF
harm.
DIR. Roberts also stated that there
was no malice against Miss Weekly
but the rules must be enforced or &
cheap boarding house would result
In regard to the colored man at the
institution, DIR. Roberts stated there
was no objection to a colored man
but he did object to the darkey patient
entertaining all his friends and rela-
tives at picnic every Sunday.
Vi Supervisor Bronson upheld the col
ored man and asked that the county
pay for his being kept in the Streator
hospital and not being admitted to the
sanitarium.
Supervisor Bell then moved that
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