Show s J i ri Whiskers and nd Ho Hospitals Hospitals- i iv I CL i r i i A v V FE days ago a coroners coroner's jury took occa oct ston sion to censure censure the county hospital for S. S what was termed the carelessness of a nurse who I left a razor where a patient could get it It so I happened that the patient used the blade to commit suicide and the jury concluded that if I the razor had not been there the theman man could not I I have cut his throat I 4 I Later a woman in the city jail attempted j I i suicide by hanging herself with a towel Had i j i she been successful we suppose a coroner jury jurYj I w would woud Iq have been justified in censuring the j jailer iler j I for foi at leaving the towel where the woman could get It The county hospital Is not supposed to receive receive receive re re- re- re mentally deranged patients hence it was natural for attendants to conclude that a convalescent con con- patient could be trusted to shave him him- self Men who kill themselves are re mentally unbalanced Unbalanced unbalanced un un- balanced so it would seem that the carelessness Wi wa was to have bave been found In jn the admission of the patient rather than lira In th the a accorded corded him hm after arrival Whenever ver we w have been in the the hospital our out whiskers whisker kept pt on growing as if it nothing bad had hap hap- Let us add that there is nothing so disconcerting disconcerting dis dis- concerting as as' whiskers three days days' lon longer r than they should b be And so when we we were ere getting well we had our out razor and sha shaved ve f ourselves and L we didn't cut our throat although we did put 3 a gash in our upper lip So about all we have got to say is that when these jurors go 10 to the hospital we hope that thit the nurse wilt will rem remember no nol to le leave lee e any friy razor around they are arc getting well because be cause they all aU ought to grow V whiskers J I |