Evening star., 1943-10-13
Mason, Rutland
Custer Urged
BySenators
Dr.. Bocock and Z
On GoI|inger Stoff
AssoiIed in Report
BY JAMES E. CHINN.

Removal of Commissioner Guv
Mason and Health Officer George
c. Rutland was recommended
today in joint report filed with
the Senate District Committee
by Senators Bushfleld of South
Dakota and Buck of Delaware.
Republicans, two of the three
members of q special subcom-
mittee which recently completed
an investigation of Gallinger.
The original report of the two
members of the investigating SUBJ
committee also recommended re-
moval of DR.. Edgar A. Bocock, SUI
perintendent of Gallinger, and DR..
Joseph L. Gilbert, head of the
psychiatric ward and DR.. Charles P.
Cake, chief of the tuberculosis ward.
In a last-minute revision, however,
Senators Bushfleld and Buck modi-
he'd the recommendation, and said
If DR.. Bocock is not relieved. he
should be held strictly accountable
for the unsatisfactory conditions"
in the wards under their super
vision.
The subcommittee chairman,
Senator Holman, Republican, OF
Oregon, made his individual report
public last week. He said today he
had authorized Senator Bushfield
and Buck ito affix my signature to
the report, so that it would be a
unanimous decision "
Immediate Action Sought.
The report recommended the i'm
mediate removal of Commissioner
Mason. The word immediate" did
not appear in other recommended
tions for personnel changes.
The paragraph in the report re-
lating to Commissioner Mason said:
I'VE recommend the immediate
removal of Commissioner Guy Ma
son because of his complete failure
to perform the duties of his job in
supervising Gallinger Hospital His
defiance of this committee indicates
lack of sense of responsibility on
his part which makes him untitled
for the position he now holds"
Commissioner Mason fatty re-
fused to testify about conditions at
Gallinger when he was called before
the subcommittee during it's recent
public hearings.
Advised by reporters Of the sub
committees recommendations of tie
Gallinger investigating group. Com
missioner Mason said he had no
comment.
Doctors Decline Comment.
DR.. Bocock, asked If he had any
| comment. replied none whatso-
ever" DR.. Cake likewise declined
comment. DR.. Gilbert was not i'm
mediately available.
Inquiry disclosed that Health
Officer Rutland is out of the city.
and there was no statement from
his office
Concerning DR.. Rutland, the re-
port said:
I'VE recommend the removal Of
DR.. George C. Rutland because of
his failure as health officer of the
District to know and prevent a con-
tinuance of the conditions described
in this report as existing at Gallinger
Municipal Hospital"
The original report with respect to
recommendations about Drs. Bocock,
Gilbert and Cake which were later
modified, said:
We recommend the removal OF
Supt. DR. Edgar A. Bocock. This
investigation has convinced your
committee that he is unsuited to the
job of experimenting an institution
as large and varied as Gallinger
Municipal Hospital
I'VE recommend the removal OF
DR.. Joseph L. Gilbert because he
has not displayed an attitude of
sympathetic understanding for the
patients coming within his iurisdic-
ton and seems to your committee
temperamentally untitled for the
position he now holds.
I'VE recommend the dismissal o.
DR., Charles P. Cake, in charge of the
tubercular ward. because he has per-
mltted an atmosphere of callousness.
| indifference and neglect of patients
to pervade that ward"
Senators Bushfield and Buck de-
clared in their joint report they be-
lleved the number of deaths" at
Gallinger seemed to them as a re-
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