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Behind the case histories of each one of the 4,421 patients at Creedmoor, the 8,634 at Pilgrim, the 7,117 at Central Islip, the 5,855 at Rockland-in the padded violent cells and in the disinfected halls-there are human stories. The ache of ceaseless fear and the agony of ordered purposelessness are ever present in these crowded wards...
...commission, appointed by Governor Dewey after the Creedmoor scandal last May (TIME, June 7), has been investigating New York State's mental hospitals. Head of the commission is smart Lawyer Archie 0. Dawson. Findings...
...March, and high time-an epidemic of amebic dysentery, a filth-borne disease usually transmitted from excreta to the mouth, had plagued Creedmoor's inmates for three years. Six had died by the end of 1942 without action by the hospital's superintendent, Dr. George W. Mills, or the Department of Mental Hygiene...
State Senator Seymour Halpern heard about the conditions from some Creedmoor workers. He went to see for himself, disguised by a stubble beard and an old coat to gain entrance as an inmate's visitor...
...been working in a State mental hospital; 3) injuries to patients should be promptly investigated; 4) new sources of attendants should be found-possibly among conscientious objectors; 5) patients who have escaped and remained at large for one year should not be automatically discharged as at present (one of Creedmoor's dementia praecox patients got a job as a Government employe in Philadelphia). He later added that patients merely senile should not be herded into institutions for the insane...