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Show I UNFORTUNATE MEN I DEMAND AnENTIQN H INDIFFERENCE AND PROFITEER. mA INQ CHARGED IN FARMING j MEN TO STATE ASYLUMS H president Harding Is Appealed To In H Behalf of Unfortunato Soldiers H of Recent Wars to Assist In m Getting Better Treatment H Washington, Asserting Hint tho H more tlmn 11500 mentally disabled foi. M u;or service men now pliced In sliuc H Institutions were victims of such "gross H neglect, Indifference and profiteering" H as constituted u "black reproach on H the honor of tho nation" tho Dlrni- H bled American Veterans of the World M War , In a memorial prosentod Monday H to President Harding urged Immcdlato M octlon by the government looking to H tho trcntment of nil such cases In fed H crnl institutions. Neglect of those H casca In state Institutions, tfio mem. H orlal said, Is committing to pormnncnt insanity many of tho victims who by B timely treatment probably could be H cured. H Describing the condition of "con- H 'tract" cases of tills class In the lnsltu- V tlons of the state of Ohio ns typical H ' of those. In "pratlcally every state," tho B memorial assorted the government had B "farmed out the Insane ox-scrvlco men M of Ohio to state asylums which are B notoriously overcrowded, undermanned M and iifndeiuntoly equipped to treat ami 1 care for them," while It has not pro- H vldcd ouo federal Institution for this H purpose' In tho stuto H The Longvlew asylum of Hamilton H county, Ohio, the memorial said, "Is so L, very, overcrowded that '210 Inmates M sleep ou the floor like cattle every H Of the mentnlly dlsablod placed In m rho Institutions of Uiu state, of whom, M ' It was said, physlcinns believe half M might be cured by treatment, not one, B the memorial asserted, was receiving M "medical trcatmont of any kind for M the mental diseases and curable cases m aro being dally doomed to permanent H insanity. None of the Institutions, it M was further asserted, segregate tholr B tubercular patients. M An average profit of $1100 on each pa- H tlcnt out of tho $517.50 annual main- m tennne'o fee paid by the government M wns shown In the figures for tho nlno H institutions of the state cited In the B In hundreds of ensos, It wns assorted, H relatives are refusing to commit men- B tally disabled veterans, who might ho H' restord to useful cltlxqnshlp, to co)i- m dltions in tho "contract" nsyluni1, most B oC which, the memorial said, are "noth- Hr Ing more than lockups,' M .Congress was urged to ,tnko early M action to romdy tho situation. |