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Show ; O 4 O INMATES SLEEP j ON FLOOR LIKE CATTLE, CLAIM, ! Profit of $300 Per Year; Made on Insane Ex-Soldiers, Report Charges CHANGES DEMANDED Disables Veterans Declare, No Effort Is Made to Cure Patients WASHINGTON. Jan 16 Asserting thnt more than 3500 mentallv disabled dis-abled former service men now placed In state Institutions were victims of such ' gross neglect indifference anu j profiteering'' as constituted a "black ' reproach of the honor of the nation." : the Disabled American Veterans of j the w oiid War, in n memorial pre- j sented ! .ay to President Harding. ' urgfd Immediate action by the government gov-ernment looking to tho treatment of jail such cases In fedcroj institutions I eglect of these ens- S In state Instl-'. Instl-'. II.-. memoiial satd N torfi- , m.lttlng to permanent insanity many 1 of the victims who by timelv treat- I ment probably could be cured. ivM FARMED oi i Describing the condition of "contract" "con-tract" cases of this class in the institutions in-stitutions of the state of uhio as typical typi-cal of thobC in "practically every state." the memorial asserted the government gov-ernment had 'farmed out the Insane ex-service men of Ohio to state asy- lums which are notoriously over-1 crowded, undermanned and inadequately inade-quately equipped to treat and care' for them" while It has not provided' one federal Institution for this pur-; poso in the state. SLEEP ON FLOOR. The Longvlew Asylum of Hamilton I cuiinty, Ohio, the memorial said, "is so very crowded that 240 Inmates Bleep on the floor like cattle everj 1 night." Of the mentally disabled placed in the Institution of the state, of whom 1 It was paid, some might be cured by treatment, not one, the memorial asserted, as-serted, was receiving "medical treatment treat-ment of aity kind for the mental dis-eases dis-eases and curable cases are being! daily doomed to permanent Insanity "j None of the Institutions, it wa further fur-ther asserted, segregates tubercular1 patients. An average profit of 1200 on each patient out of tiit $647.50 annual maintenance fee paid by tho government govern-ment was shown In figures for the nine institutions of the state cited In the memorial In hundreds of cases, it was asserted, assert-ed, relatives are refusing to commit mentally disabled veterans, who might ! restored to useful citizenship, to condition! In the "contract" asylums, most of which, the memorial said, are "nothing more than lockups," Congress was urged to take early action to remedy the situation. |