Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-09-14


day and to uphold the officials of the
institution.
The report was signed by Supervi-
sors Andrews and Williams, Super
visor Thomas Haskins, the third
member OF the investigating commit
tee, at whose instgation the report
was made, refused to aflix his sigma
ture to the document. The report
was unanimously adopted after 1t was
presented.
TO the Honorable, the Chairman and
Members of the Board of Super
visors, In the CouAty of La Sale
and State of Illinois;
| We, the undersigned committee ap-
pointed at the June session OF this
board to investigate the conditions at
| the La Sale County tuberculosis
Sanitarium and to make report at the
| September session of this board, beg
leave to report that we have carefully
| Investigated the conditions existing at
| said sanitarium and report as fol-
| lows:
We find that this investigation Is
| evidently based upon the complaint
of one Catherine Welke, formerly "a
patient at said institution, who com
plains that she was refused admission
into said sanitarium by tho manage
ment of said institution and the SAM
tarium board, after she had voluntar.
lily left the same.
In regard to the complaint of said
Catherine Woke we find the facts
substantially as follows.
Miss WoIk. was admitted in said
l institution in June, 1920. having come
from sanitarium in the State Of Min
nesota, where she had been under
sanitarium treatment for several
years. She remained a patient until
February. 1922, when she was taken
to the Illinois Valley hospital for the
purpose of having her appendix re-
moved. After the operation she re-
turned to the sanitarium and found
that the room she had formerly occu-
pied was then occupied by another pa
tent who was sick unto death.
She was rendered another room in
the infirmGry of the sanitarium, bat
refused to take this room, and do
manded that she be returned to the
room formerly occupied by her. When
this request was refused, she called
a taxicab and returned to the Illinois
Valley hospital.
During the time she was a patient
at the sanitarium she was trouble
maker, requiring much more care
than the average patient, and demand
ing special care not accorded other
patients Evidence was introduced al
the various hearings had by this com
mittee, consisting of correspondence
and reports from at least two institn
lions in Minnesota where she was for
nerly a patient which showed that
she was not amenable to the rules OF
said institutions and corresponded
with the conduct exhibited by hel
while patient in our institution.
II Because of all these facts and be
cause of the influence on other pa
/, tents, if she re-admitted and allowed
to do as she pleased, the management
felt that discipline could not be main
tanned were she re-admitted to our in
'titution on her own terms.
The action of the mana cement in re
using to re-admit Miss Welke was
oncurred in by the board of director:
# said sanitarium at a regular meet
ng duly held on March 7th, 1922.
We would further report that tht
aw establishing tuberculosis santa
: RUINS provides, among other things
las follows;
Every sanitarium established
under this act shall be free for thu
benefit Of such of the inhabitants o
such county as may be afflicted witt
tuberculosis, and they shall be en-
tied to occupancy, nursing, care, med
icine and attendance, according to thu
rules and regulations prescribed b.
aid board Of directors. Such SAM
tarium shall always be subject to sucl
reasonable rules and regulations a
said board of directors may adopt il
order to ronder the use of said SAM
tarium Of the greatest benefit to tn
greatest number, and said board o
directors may exclude from the uS
lof said sanitarium any and all pei
sons who shall wilfully violate sucl
rules and regulations"
: Tho evidence further disclosed tina
Miss Welke refused to live UP to tn
rules and regulations of said board
by reason Of which the management
refused to permit her to rc-enter, be
lieving that If permitted to re-ente
and persist in her demands, it wouIt
be absolutely impossible to maintain
discipline and would have bad Of
; feet upon the other patients in salt
! 5anitarium.
. The evidence further showed tina
at the time Miss Welke was ADMITTED
to the santarum she YVES not a resi-
dent of this state, which fact was I'm
known to the board at the time OF he
entry, but was, as a matter of fact
a resident of the State of Minnesota
i We therefore report that in tn
event Miss Welke has now gained ;
lega residence in this county, we be
lieve it is the duty of this county tC
take care of her in some manner, and