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•©•©©••••••••••ioaoaQeecQaoeaaoe©###!M Lima State HospitalCriminally InsaneLIMA STATE HOSPITALFor The Criminally InsaneIn nearby Lima is located the State Hospital for the Criminally Insane.Hospiial Administrator Robert B. Baylor told us that “we haven’t had anything curtailed, nor interfered with, since Governor Rhodes took office.But we have had to improve management controls to maintain this positioning.“A number of positions were removed by administrative order last January. Since then accurate evaluation of needs, and careful planning of the use of allocated funds, have enabled us to restore such of these asmmMIXING APPLE BUTTER in the kitchen at Lima State.fOn our tour through ihe buildings and grounds at Lima State, we were distiubed ny ihe “day-hall” set up in most of theIOOCC'Gw w ***o n ©••ch'sed.” or maximum-security £wards.Each of these wards has 43(Turn To Page T * 6)ccooocGQoeceoROBERT B. BAYLOR, administrator of Lima State: “A number of positions were removed by administrative order last January.”%. * ooQ©were most desirable in our total programming.”What of the others?And what of those retained? ]tlr. Baylor believes that “except for people in the lower paid grades, generally Ohio isn’t too bad, salary-wise. A better pay scale should be devised for people in direct contact with the patients. We don’t keep pace with industry here, and we do need highersalaries.Attendants at Lima State receive $85 per month in extra “hazard pay” — “But I believe others here deserve it, too.”With tho extra $15, the attendants at Lima State start at fllS monthly.Lima State handles some 1000-1200 30 - day observation cases yearly, Mr. Baylor reported.“About 5-6 per cent of observation cases return The nature of this institution is such that the next time committed, patients might not be sent here, but to one of the ‘civil’ mentalinstitutions/*©©QOo©
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Delphos Herald
Delphos, Ohio, US
Tue, Jan 07, 1964
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