Transcripts of hearings on cruelty to patients, 1907.

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Transcripts of hearings on cruelty to patients, 1907.

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In 1907 the Legislature appointed a five-member commission to investigate the charges and cruelty of mistreatment of patients and the insufficiency of food at the Bryce Insane Hospital. The commission made an extensive investigation which included the testimony of 117 witnesses and other persons involved at the hospital. The result of the investigation was a fourteen page published report clearing the hospital and declaring it had the best available care. (See record ID ALAV86-A889 for a description of the published report.) These transcripts are incomplete, but they do provide a verbatim account of questions and answers posed to witnesses regarding the above issues. This agency was later known as State Hospitals.

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Alabama. Commission to Investigate the Alabama Insane Hospitals.

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Corinne (Corine) Peteet was born in Livingston, Sumter County, Alabama in November 1866. She attended the Livingston Female Academy from 1879 through 1884 . She married Benjamin F. Eborn on 21 March 1885 from her parents’ home in Livingston, Alabama. The couple lived in the Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama area and had four daughters: Edith C. (1887–); Mary L. (1890–); Estelle (1893–); and Lela M. (1894–). Benjamin, born in 1859, died on 20 December 1945. From the guide to the E...