![]() ![]() In response to an order by Judge Judd, the number of residents has been reduced by 3,000 during Dr. Smith Center for Research in Mental Retardation and Human Development at the University of Kansas, told the court. Butterfield, professor of pediatrics and a director of the Ralph L. “I have never seen a facility in which inadequacy was so widespread,” Dr. Judd, parents and experts in the field have alleged that the institution brings about serious deterioration of patients. The hearings were on a suit seeking the transfer of the 3,500 residents of Willowbrook to their own homes, foster homes, halfway houses or other smaller residential units.Īt the hearings, before Federal Judge Orrin G. Well‐informed people at the state agency said that even before the Federal Court hearings on Willowbrook began last week, there had been displeasure with Dr. Miller said that a successor would not be named until community leaders had been sounded out on those being considered for the job. He took over the job after revelations of shocking mistreatment of patients at Willowbrook. Ristic, who has been director since 1972. ![]() ![]() ![]() Important officials in the department confirmed reports that the state agency was dissatisfied with Dr. Anyone who is in a position like mine has some ideas that he should be somewhere else. About the possibility of transfer, he said: “Transferral is never out of the question. ![]()
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