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The food was frequently very inferior, the butter rancid, and at times more like lard than butter. In some of the Wards, there was none given to the patients, the attendants had only enough (or themselves. The bread was occasion- ally sour. There were four or five barrels flour which I saw in the bakery, which was sour, about the months of July and August. The baker called my attention to it, and said, '' that he could make bread almost out of saw-dust, but that he could not make good bread out of that flour." The meat was often very poor ; I remember well oa one or two occasiojis when the corned beef was so tainted that it could not be eaten. The milk was frequently sour,, with the cream taken off it. I saw butter- making going on in the kitchen. The molasses was otten sour, and very dark, and the sugar the color of molasses sugar. The fish occa- sionally was not sound, and had a bad smell. Wet beds were permitted to remain so tor days on which the patients slept at night. The practice in the Hospital was, in Summer, when the weather was fine, to put the beds out sometimes, just as they were, to dry in the sun, and in the Winter time, occasionally to take th«m in the same state to the hot air chamber below The beds have often been al^-^wed to remain in a wet state for several days together. I never saw the Male Supervisor examine a bed after it was made up ; he passed through mostly like any other visitor. I never saw Dr. DeWolf examine a bed but once. Mr. McNab was in the habit of giving notice to the attendants when the Commissioners were coming, to get the outside quilt on, and any of the rooms not in a good state, to lock them up. There was an insufficiency of bed- clothes, particularly sheets ; and a great cause of the wet beds was the want of bed-sacks. I had to wait about three months before I could get half-a-dozen sacks, which I had applied for. I found several of the patients lousy when I entered the Wards, and there was not sufficient clothing to change them with, so as to keep them clean. I had to put the clothing in salt and water in the bath tub to destroy the vermin. Mr. McNab stated they were complaining in the laundry about sending too many clothes to the wash. In the Ward which I had charge of, there were twenty-five patients and two attendants. We had often to wash some of our own clothes in the Ward. We had some very dirty patients ; and as well as I can recollect, there was an aver- age of not more than eight sheets a week sent to the wash. About every three weeks a bed had one sheet put on it. The air in the Wards was at times very bad ; the regis- ters of the hot air flues were some of theui off altogether, and others broken. The patients would often put food, human filth, and other rubbish down these flues. I have seen it cleaned out below. I made application to have those registers put on, and repaired, and spoke to the Medical Superintendent about it, but it was not attended to. thf a There was no fire brigade organized, nor were the attend- ants over shown how to put out a tire or liow to use fire ap- paratus. I saw only one old piece of hose which was unfit for use, and the taps for fire purposes in the wards were never once turned or used while I was there. There were no wrenches to turn them with, and no spanners to couple a hose on. Doctor DoWolf did not go through the wards daily, he was very irregular in his visits. At times, not often,, he would visit the wards sometimes once a week, and at times not more than once in three weeks. Dr. Fraser was gen- erally very regular in his visits, mostly daily. I have known patients confined to the dark room for over a week, and never seen by the Superintendent during that time ; they were very violent patients, some of them were naked and their rooms were in a bad state. I know that Thyne and Hubley were afraid to go into the rooms, and they occasionally came to me to give them assistance. Ward M 1 was frequently very cold in Winter, and not promptly attended to when complained of. Ihe idea generally among the attendants was, they had better for their own sakes make as few complaints as possible. A mail named Fayle was sick, and I was attending on biin in M 2. I saw he was very low, and I sent for the doctor two or three times, but he was not to be found in the building. After some time, he came up from his daughter's, but the man was dead. Dr. Fraser was in Halifax at the time. I have seen the steward (Downie) under the influence of drink, frequently, with as much as he could carry. I have seen Hon. Robert Robertson pass through the Wards occasionally, not often, sometimes with Mr. Dustan; neither ever examined a bed, raised even the bed clothes, turned one over, or out, while I was in the Ward. They could not have done so without my seeing them. It was generally known and talked of in the institution, thut the doctors were not on friendly terms. [Sd.] JAMES 8. WILSON. Sworn at Halifax, N. S., this 12th day of July, A. D. 1877, before me, William Evans, J. P. } PpoviNCi OF Nova Scotia, Halifax, S.S. } I, Michael Mgaqher, of the City of Halifax, Yeoman, make oath, and say as follows : — I say that I was an assistant attendant in M 8 Ward, in the Provincial Hospital for the Insane, from, or about the month of September, 1875, until May, 1876. 1 had constant opportunities of noticing the (|uulity and quantity of the food used. The butter was often uneatable from being rancid ; it had frequently to bo sent back ; it was sometimes two or three days before we got any in its place. The butter was always strong. The tea was of poor quality, often very poor. The milk was hardly noticeable in the tea, the quantity was so scanty. In September, when I was first employed, the bread waa sour and soggy. Afterwards, it goi a little better. Sometimes, the meat was insufficient, except tor ten or twelve who worked outside There were from thirty to thirty -five persons in my Ward. Some days the patients got no meat, other times we showed them a sign of it, to prevent complaint. Other times we had to see which patient to take it from, in order to give it to another who would be more troublesome. One class of patients got butter, others none. There were a number of wet beds daiiy in my Ward. They were rarely taken out in the air They were generally left for some days as they were. One patient, Norman McNeil, was in a very bad state from bed-sores. He was paralyzed, and generally laute. I called Dr. Fraser's attention to his state, so that I should not be under any responsibility about him. Nothing was done for him. Being nearly helpless, his bed was in a worse condition than other patients who could look after themselves. It was revolting to look at him. The sores^ were on his hips chiefly, and on his back. The bed-clothes were put out in the attic to dry,* but it only hardened them; when the patient laid on them, the warmth and perspiration made them worse than ever. The bed-clothes of this patient wiere never taken to the Ijvundrv to wasli, to my kiiowlrd;;^ I iiixlrrstood that th<'V coiiiplairiod at tin* laundrv, if wo sent mai'.y clottics, ciHpci'iallv it tlu'V wc'io dirtv. \\'«' soiiu'tiiiics washed thfin in the hnth tub It was tlic practice to hvive tin' hcds wet for davf'. Thoro was not cnoiiifli ciotiiini: to keep Home of the pationtH warm in W^inter. Then' was not (Miouirh sup- plied to keep them (deaft. The ch»tiies of some of the ])atients got full o\' lic<«. VVe had to soak th«ion«. It was ffencrnlly luubrstoofl that tlioy were not oil ^(M)(l terms with oncli other. (ifor^^e 'r)j()iiips(>n, a pa'tU'iit, wji« sick whih» T was at the H()!s|Mtal. \U^ (IumI thiMc. IIo wan admitted four or five ilavH before the Doctors saw him to treat him medically. 1 saw that the man was in a very had state After repeat- edly calling the Doctors' utttuition to ids condition, Oiey sent Inm a howl of Henn.i and salt.^. lie was very weak at the time. Next mornin;j: lu; was prostrate. '{'here was a tremendous evacuation fn»m his howels. Ife died from three to five days afterwards. Thompson's family was sent for the day before lie died. Dr DeWolf asked me if tliey were making anyencjuiries about his illness. I saiital, [Sa.] MICHAEL MKA(illi:K Sworn to at Ilalifjix, tlii.s 'ird day of July, A. ])., 1H77, bcforr uus \V ILMAM KVANH, .1. 1*. n 'o* he Lunatic Asylum, Mjujnt HoI'k, ) iHth St'pt., 1873. I 1{kv. Siu, — I take tho liherty of addrcssinjjj you, as I undcrHtaiid you wore iiiakiujjj LMj«|uirios last ovcnni*; about injuries received by Al)rahani Landrc whom you visited here, and I am in a posi^'on to give you some information, l^andre, it seems, used to assist in the dininj^ i^)om in this ward, and about March last h-td some altercation with one Dyke, an att<'ndant, who (truelly kicked and stamped upon him, inflicting the injuries, from the eflects of which the unhappy man is now dying. Dyke, whoso christian name is Edwin, (but 1 an> not quite sure, as some say it is Isaac,) was afterwards discharged, but not for this matter, as the other patients were too much intimidated at the time to give evidence, though some enquiries were made. I, myself, was not here at the time, but there are two convalescent patients, Charles Thomson and Benjamin King, who are still in the ward, witnessed the assault, and can give vou all the particulars, sh< uldyou reiiuire them. Edwin Dyke, I understand is a discharged soldier, and resides in Hali- fax. The man Wm McDonald, whom you saw on his d\ ing bed, sometime since, was in this ward, he was struck with death while sitting at the dinner table, was then removed to another ward, and died the same night; \e was a quiet man, took no exercise, and pined away. I never saw the Superintendent even speak to him, or ftel his pulse in his rare visits to the ward, though the man's life was evidently waning fast. I trust, Rev. sir, that you will not think me officioua in 8 iniiklnjr thiMP inuttTi knijwn to you ; but I, mvMclf, lmv«» MutrciiMl MO ciiu'lly tVoiii luulal Uf^a^e in this plac*^ that 1 wIhIi, it' poHMibI(», to Hav«' (itlior prou;;lit Iumt oij th»^ 7tli .luiu', ami th»' iM'Xt tlav, SiiiuIhv, I was lu'iUally kickotl and iiraton ; now* of tlu^ outrage Irakrd out in \u\ i'i\M\ and tUvvo attiMidants, Wni. llohiTtMon, Win. Nril, and Alex. McCoy, w(!ro din- chaiyt'd in o tnsjMiucnc'' ; Init I do not think I shall rvtt* comph'ff'lf/ Kfcovrr from fhf injurirn then rfCfivrd. My tn'at- rnont lian b«H»n ;l,'o(mI Hiiu!«« tliat tiiuf. I have no inTMonal nniniosity towanl« tli** Su|»t'rint«'nd«'nt, Dr. Dt-VVolf, wlioin I have ulvvavs found courtiHuis ; hut I liavo no hesitation in statinir that In? fjrosshf n^jflccti hiA ilutif of ncrstmal suprr- vision and in(|uiry into individual t!a»i.'S, rise HU«'h thinj;» «H I hav<» mentioned eould never have happeneil. Several Hiniilar (jases ot ill unn^'e, though not to (piite the same extent, have come under my own eye. The secretly which shrouds everything is also a very ha. W'fiili' aitiiii^' in that caparity, then* wan n patient, n v<^'inj( t'oluri'd \v<»man, whtjjr fiaim' I ilon't nMiuMnbrr, hnt wliii'h «*Hn Jm' oanily nst'rrtainrjl tVom tlu' hookM of tlu» HoMpita), wlu) h«M'imi' ill; mIio hail litth* or no iippptitc, nnd \vn^^ MutVfriiiy^ iVom a stoppayi* of watrr and funstipa- tii»n '»f the howrlN, I t«»hl Mtm. Downic, tlie frinah' siiprr* visor, h«»r rondition and .sho naid that she wouhl N't th«» Mupi»rint<»nd«*nt ktiow ; hut thoro wan notlnnjj; don** for h«M* that day. Findni;; that she wan uvttinp: wors*-, and 8ufVi«r- in^ j;reat pain, I pitird the poor cnMturc. and \V(?nt down niVHoIt to tho surj^ffry to tril thf dook('d at h«'r for about a ruiruito, and saihe was ut half 1 have ients in n their named ird the ten the ; under- formed, le bath- ler, and not the it is a 3a k and ve been • of the uree, to refused . Fraser left the d prefer »e' than [AY. At an inquiry held January 2'\, 187H, before roniniis- sioncrs Ross and Farrell, with regard to tlie dcatli of IIenuy Bond, a patient in tl' Hospital for the Insane, the attendant in the ward in which he died made the foilowi!)g statement : — Shadrach Brutox sworn: — Ilonry Bond, a patient, died in the ward which I have charjj^e of. It is supposed to be the infirmary ward. He died last Thursday morning (17th Jan'y, IS7^<), about 9 o'clock He came into my ward the Saturday befoiC he died. I partly cleaned him on Saturday, but not eflectually. I did the best I could wi'h him. Campbell, the attendant of the ward in which Bond came from was in my ward on Monday, and I gave him the comb to take the vermin that were left in his liead out. I reported the state of this patient to the supervisor, and he sent up some sort of a wash for his head. When tliis patient came into my ward he was in a very weak state, unable to stand; 1 had to change him two or three times a day, and I had no assistant in my ward, except on two occasions, when Campbell came in to assist me. I had suc- ceeded in taking out of Bond's head all the vermin, with the exception of some nits, before he died. This patient, if pr«*per care had been taken of him, might have been kept clean. Dr. DeWolf visited this patient daily while he was in my ward, except the Thursday morning he died- He had an attendant to stop up with him the night he died, and until about 12 o'clock the night before; the other nights, Frank, the watchman visited him twice or three times dur- ing the night, as far as I know. Pie was locked up the rest of the time. He had bowel complaint from the time he came into M 6, until he died ; he required to be changed constantly. He had no clergyman, or any friends to visit him ; he seemed at times somewhat sensible, and asked for a drink. I have 13 patients, five of whom are unable to help themselves, in my ward. In the ward above, M 7, there are only 11 patients and two attendants. I remember when Clapt. Groudie, from Yarmouth, died. He was in my ward. I remember that his fate was badly 12 bruised, having fallen out of the bed Home short period before he died; he wmh parMlysed, and unable to help him- self; he had fallen out of the bed during the night; he had fallen out of the b 'd several nights before that, and after- wards. I found him fre<|uently on the floor in the morning; he had no attendant during the night, except the watehnan, who sometimes visited him. lie, too, as is usual with all the patients, was locked up at night. He had no regular night attendant up to the night «>*" his death. Dougal Cameron, a patient, died in my ward, about 12 months ago; he had been in the ward only about two days, he was consumptive, and had no night attendant also, except Frank, the watchman, who might have visited him or not, but we found him dead in his bed in the morning. I reported the case to the supervisor, and never heard anything more about it after. The most of the patients generally in my ward are weak and sickly. At Commissioner Farrell's last visit, I called his attention, as he was in the ward at dinner time, to the quality of the meat which had been served. It was nearly all fat and flabby, and quite uneatable ; it was the belly part of an old pig The Commissioner took it over to the kitchen to let Mr. Downie and the cook see it. I had to give the patients bread and butter for their dinner. We had no soup or tea to drink with the bread. The meat for about three, weeks previously was so fat that the sick patients could not eat it. SHADRACH BRUTON. Extracts from the Supervisor and Attendants^ Testimony in the same case. JoHif H. McNab, Supervisor, sworn : I noticed this man (Bond) failing in appearance amonth be- fore he took to his bed. I remarked to the attendant, Thyne, that from this man's appearance, I tkought he would likely die of consumption, lie was about a week constantly in 13 bis bed before his removal to M 6, (the infirmary) ward I kno'v that he had some wine in the invalid ward before he died. This patient slept in the room in the N. K. corner of M 2 ward. It was a very cold room, and 1 noticed the win- dows caulked with rags after one of Commissioner Farrell's visits. Bond was very weak when he was removed, and we had to carry him to the other ward. 1 never exainined his head to see if he had vermin in it. Briit(m was the first to tell me he had vermin on him. Ilel ad bowel complaint in M 6. He was buried last evening. I never saw or heard that this man's chest had been examined with a stetho- scope. I did not see the pork which was rejected in M 6, but I heard it was afterwards given to the pigs. The belly part of an Old sow is not fit food for invalid patients. Mr. Farrell pointed out at his last visit (about a week before) a number of windows which were broken, and I had them repaired next day. I found, however, on examination, just this moment, that a pane of glass is still broken in Dr. Richey's bed room, and another pane slipt down about half an inch, leaving an opening of about these dimensions right across the pane. JOHN H. McNAB. Angus D. Campbell, attendant, sworn :— Bond was up and down for some considerable time before he was removed out of the ward ; he appeared to be consumptive, and I only noticed him as hoarse, and having a bad cough about a week before he was removed, just when he took to his bed. He eat pretty well up to the time of his leaving, yet he fell away fearfully and rapidly after he went to his bed. The superintendentsawhim occasionally to shake hands with him, and ask how he felt, sometime before he took to his bed, and he had a mixture for a cough. Dr. Fraser was sick, and did not visit the ward. I never saw Dr. DeWolf examine this patient with a stethoscope. He only began to expectorate badly after he took to his bed. Bond was perfectly clean before and when he left my ward. His head and whiskers were combed and cleaned, and the vermin, only a few, taken out daily by me or Mr. Thyne before he left the ward, and while he was in bed. I used no wash or blue ointment on 14 this patient's head previous to his removal. This man was able to help himself, and take the chamber before his removal to M 6. He had no bowel complaint then. The room ia a very cold one, about the coldest in the ward ; it is the same room in which Commissioner Farrell called my attention to the state of the windows. 1 had to caulk the windows with old rags after the Commissioner called my attention to the cold air coming in through them. The windows in this room were also broken, and they were re- paired, I think, next day after the Commissioner's visit. This was before Bond took to his bed constantly, as he sometimes lay down for an hour or two before he became very sick. A. 1). CAMPBELL. Frah^CI8 Thyne, attendant, sworn. Bond was sick, off and on, for a considerable time before he died. He had a bad cough, was careless about coming to the table for his meals, and when he did, eat very little, for about two months before he died. He was consumptive, as far as I could judge, and I believe he got his death in that big room, (which was very ^old) where he slept before his removal. The windows were in a bad state, and had to be caulked with old rags. He had a cough mixture. He had bowel complaint pretty bad before his removal to M 6 ; was very weak, could not stand alone, and the look of death was in his face before he left the ward. His eyes were sunk in his head. This man's chest was never examined with a stetho- scope to my knowledge. Dr. Fraser was around occasional- ly, but he was unwell at the time. This patient has had vermin on him frequently while in the ward ; he occasional- ly combed bis own head before he took sick. Campbell told me that he always combed his head. I did not examine it to see if it was clean before his removal. He was always, while in M 6, locked up at night in his room, with live other patients. FRANCIS THYNE. \ 1 16 At an inquiry held at Mount Hope, Fob. 7, 1878, the following: statement was made, under oath, by one of the attendants, relative to the death of Robert Todd, of St. Margaret's Bay, Co. Halifax. Henry Hutt sworn : — I am assistant attendant in M 8 ward. I remember the time Robert Todd died. He had been a patient in my ward. It was some time in July last. I noticed this patient for about three weeks before he died, that he began to fail in his health ; he coughed a good deal and expectorated badly ; he was very hoarse ; he refused to eat, and seldom went to the table during that time ; he seemed to be gradually pining away, and, as far as I could judge, I thought he was consumptive. The doctors saw him as they passed through the ward, but never, to my knowledge, made any medical examination of him. He had no medicine given to him that I know of. I reported him on a slip of paper, sent to the Superintendent, as not taking his food. He got some gruel and milk occasionally after that. This patient slept in a room with two others. He was never removed to the infirmary ward. He took to his bed three or four days before he died, and was generally, as far as I can recollect, visited by the doctors once a day during that time. He died in the room he occupied with the other patients. The only medicine he had, to my know- ledge, was a small medicine bottle of wine the day he died. His breath was very short all the time he was in bed, and he could only take a portion of the wine. He died about 4 o'clock in the afternoon. I saw by his appearance, when I unlocked the door of his room in the morning, that he was sinking, and in fact had been from the time he took to his bed. He had no night nurse to attend him up to the day he died. We had to change this patient's clothing ire- quently, for the purpose of keeping him clean, during the three or four weeks before he died. The attendants were not ordered to visit this patient, or give him any special attention beyond the other patients. I remarked, in talk- ing over matters with the other attendant, that I thought the doctor ought to do something for this patient. There were about thirty patients in this ward, and among them many noisy and troublesome. HENRY HUTT. 16 L>.'»r,n/. I, (iRORGE PiBUS, of Wallace Hay, in the County of Cumberland, make oatii and sny as follows : - 1 say that I wj i an attendant in M H ward in the Nova Scotia Hospital for the Insane, from fSopt. 15. 187(), until April 25, lh77. I say that, for about the first three months after I entered on my duties, the provisions were very poor. Wo had sour and very inferior bread at times ; the molasses and sugar were very dark, the milk sc.intv and occasionally sour, the meat sometimes tainted, and thebutter so rancid that it was almost uneatable. Some of the patients only got butter ; others none. Commissioner Farrell found some of the beds wet and filtiiy about the montii of November ; it was the practice in the wards to leave them in that state sometimes for two weeks together ; at times they would be put down in the hot air chamber below to dry, just as they were, without a change of straw : and the great cause of the wet beds was the want of bed-sacks. Neither the Medical Superintend- ent, Supervisor, Commissioner Dustan, nor Hon. Robert Robertson, ever examii;itient named Bridget Dwycr locked in for about three months. Dr. DoWolf only saw her twice during that time, to my knowledge, and the Assistant Physician never once. Numbers of other cases of the same kind. That a patient named Abbie Armstrong was sick for about five months. She suffered from diarrhoea ; nothing done for her, and no suitable nourishment. She died about a week after I left the ward. That ano«her patient nnmed Mary Walsh was also sick; she had sore toes for about three or four months, and was suffering with diarrhoaa ; she, too, had neither medicine nor nourishment of any consequence. That I had to wash blankets, in the Ward, for Dr. De- Wolf's daughter, Mrs. Harrington ; they were given to me by Mrs, DeWolf, who seated that Mrs. H. had no tub at her house large enough. The blankets had Ward marks on some of them. That I was not called to give evicTence at the investigation, believing that if I had been, and that I told all I knew, my time'would be made short in the institution. That I am prepared, at any time, to substanticite, under oath, before any tribunal, the foregoing statement of facts. And I make this solerrn declaration consdientiously, believ- ing the same to be true, and by virtue of the Act passed in the thirty-seventh year of Her Majesty's reign, entituled : " An Act for the Suppression of Voluntar^ and Extra Judicial Oaths." KATE CAMERON. Solemnly declared before me, at River Inhabitants, in the Island of Cape Breton, this 5th day of March, rf*..D. 1879. John McMaster, J. P. j The following is a copy of Dr. DeWolf s letter announcing the death of Mrs. Turpel to her son : 10th December, 1874. Mb. Alexander TuBPBL : Dear Sir, — I have to inform you, with much regret, of your mother's decease, which occurred at an early hour this morning. I was called to her, but life wa« extinct. Elio had be«n better tlian UEual of late, anfl was much Rttuchod to her attendant. Iler death wa.H due to a fit of paralysiB, and waa very sudd )n. Please telegraph whether you wish tho interment to be in Dartmouth. I sent you a despatch this morning, which will have reached you ere tbib comes to hand. Dear Sir, (Signed) Sympathetically, J. R. DeWOLF. The Medical Superintendent's Report for 1874 concludes as follows : " It now remains to express our sincere gratitude to the Supreme •• Being for past mercies, and to invoke His blessing upon our mture *' labors. ** The last hour of the old year was spent by a large number of " attendants and many of the patients, in our chapel, whero songs of " grateful praise resounded at the solemn midnight hour, and ushered •♦ in the coming year." * (Signed) JAMI* R. DeWOLF, M. B., Superintendent. I