Dr. Thomas L. Rafferty has been appointed clinical director of the Southeast Louisiana State hospital at Mandeville.
This was announced late Wednesday afternoon by Charles Rosenblum, director of the state department of hospitals, at the Pine Manor motel here where Gov. Earl K. Long is staying.
Dr. Rafferty is an instructor in psychiatry at the Tulane university school of medicine.
Rosenblum said that with Dr. Rafferty's appointment the Mandeville mental hospital will be able to continue its work.
He said Dr. Jesse H. McClen-don of Amite, who was appointed acting superintendent last
Friday, will still be "temporarily" superintendent.
He said that Dr. McClendon "did not want the job on a permanent basis."
Dr. Robert Heath, chairman of the department of psychiatry at the Tulane university medical school, also was on hand at the Pine Manor motel along with Dr. Charles Watkins, chairman of the department of phychiatry at the Louisiana State university medical school. They, Rosenblum and Dr. Raferty met with Gov. Long at his motel room Wednesday night.
Dr. Heath said that the psy-ciatrists assigned to Mandeville are "all coming from LSU and Tulane."
He added, "We want it known that we are not withdrawin
