Show WATER CURE IN KANSAS 1 I i Refractory Patients at State Insane I I I Asylum Had It Administered 1 I to Them I Topeka Kan May GIt has been J customary to administer the water 1 I I II cure to refractory patients at the Topeka To-peka asylum for the Insane according 1 to the testimony of Miss Knox oC Topeka I To-peka given before the legislative investigation in-vestigation committee today Ii i The water cure was frequently administered t II ad-ministered while she was an attendant attend-ant at the asylum She was employed I il there during Governor Stanleys llrst II i I term nnd the head attendant oC the ward In which she worked was Miss I I III II Houston It was by the orders of Miss Houston according to the teatl I I i mony of Miss Knox that the water n cure was administered I j How was the water cure adminls tcred to the patients Inquired a com I i f mlttceman I When a patient refused to obey the f 1 orders given 1 by Miss Houston said I J MIss Knox the attendants were ordered I h l or-dered by Miss Houston to throw a I sheet over the patients head and draw her to the floor While the attendants held the patient Miss Houston poured I water out of a pan Into the patients fi 1 face The water was poured fast and f i the pouring continued until the patient I fj pa-tient agreed to obey orders Was this done very often I Yes was the reply it occurred I II very often In the time Miss Houston was attendant which was the llrst 111 year I was there f Did a patient struggle to get away Of course answered Miss Knox t hut there always were enough attendants L I at-tendants around to hold the patient 11 f Miss Knox said that a Miss Gower t succeeded Miss Houston as head attendant f I tendant In the female ward and that the water cure waa not administered under her but that refractory patients I 1 < I were strapped to a bench and whipped |