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he National Gomimificer for fiental hygiene
FOUNDED 1909 INCORPORATED 1916
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
OFFICERS
‘ EXECUTIVE OFFICERS ~— Dr. WILLIAM L. RUSSELL, CHAIRMAN
Dr. WALTER B. JAMES DR. OWEN CoPP
z PRESIDENT STEPHEN P. DUGGAN
CHARLES W. ELIOT : OR. THOMAS W. SALMON, DR. WALTER E. FERNALD
DR. BERNARD SACHS MEDICAL DIRECTOR MATTHEW C. FLEMING
DR. WILLIAM H. WELCH DR. WALTER B. JAMES
VICE-PRESIDENTS DR. FRAN KWOOD E.WI LLIAMS, Dr. GEORGE H. KIRBY
Otto T. BANNARD DR. V. V. AN DERSON, COMMITTEE ON MENTAL DEFICIENCY
TREASUPER ASSOCIATE MEDICAL DIRECTORS DR. WALTER E. FERNALD, CHAIRMAN
EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT CLIFFORD W. BEERS, COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION
DR. CLARENCE J, D'ALTON SECRETARY. :

Dr. C. MACFIE CAMPBELL, CHAIRMAN

370 SEVENTH AVENUE, NEW YORK CITY

July 14, 1921.

Dr. Lawrence Kolb, Medical Director,
U.S.Public Health Service Hospital Noed7,
Waukesha, Wisconsin.
Deer Dre Kolb:

I have learned from a newspaper that a number of charges have
been made against sae hospital aad that an investigation is underway.

With the impressions of my visit to Waukesha with Dr. Williems,
and Dre Anderson during the latter part of June fresh in my mind, i can
only say that i am confident that an investigation will show that you
and your staff have been attacking one of the most complicated problems
of medicine in a spirit of scientific zeal and broad humanity. I am
absolutely certain that if any abuses have occurred it has been due to
causes beyond your control and that, irrespective of any investigation,
your own high standards and those of the men associated with you would
lead to their prompt and permanent eradication. Mentally disabled
soldiers are suffering in many parts of the country through lack of
care. It is to a hospital like yours that those who have the waltuns
of these men at heart mist look for eblicaiandiag Shucteinl

Sincerely yours, "

TWS-K-D 5 Medical Director