The Hawk-eye and Iowa patriot. (Burlington, Iowa) 1839-1843, 1841-02-25
OHIO LUNATIC ASYLUM.

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OHIO LUNATIC ASYLUM.
Mode Of Treatment .As a primary
step. we are anxious to secure the conf.
dence and good will of our patients, and
endeavor to retain it, by. kind hospitality
and attention to their wants, without an
extraordinary oficiousness or unbecoming
authority; always DESTROYS that they shall
have every allowable privilege, and parti-
clpate IN the enjoyment Of every pleasure.
which their capacity and condition may
admit. Males and females. in separate
parties, frequently ramble over the coun-
try, IN all directions, accompanied only
by asingle attendant. The matron (Mrs.
g. w. ATcHERsoN) regularly invites all
the ladies', Who behaUe ,ceH, to her So
elal parties, on Tuesday afternoon; and
arcarriage is always ready, in pleasant
weather, if they feel anxious to take a
ride. The gentlemen are provided with
4 variety of amusing games, and books
and stationary are freely distributed to
all. We also have our sports upon the
green, and our music and dancing parties
i'll the halls. We celebrate the National
Independence on the Fourth of July, and
hold the annual election for the officers
of state in October. But above all, and
before every thing else in the world, for
the substantial welfare and improvement
of both mind and body, is regular and
profitable labor. IN an was made to be
active: even in paradise he was employed
in the healthy and pleasant exercises of
of cultivatlng garden. Happiness,
consisting in folded arms and pensive
contemplation, beneath rural shades and
by the side Of purling books, never had
any existence. except in the brains of
mad poets and love sick girls, aud boys
Or Rush tits impossible for US TO 90
into particulars; but we may observe that
many of our male patients find useful
employment, at present, in clearing up
the premises, and grading and leveling
the grounds; in attending to the vegetable
gardens; assisting in the care and man
agement of the stock upon the farm, and
all the fuel that is used. The
females find constant employment within
doors, and it will be sufficient to say of
them, that the making and mendng of
all the wearing apparel for the INDECENT,
all the washing and ironing for the entire
household, is chiefly performed by their
The following says the Cincinnati
Chronicle, are some curious facts and
conclusions which we have deduced from
the Report:
|. The total number is 25s, in the
whole time. Of these l40 are males,
and us females, and this proportion con-
|inues. If we examine into the reported
causes of Lunacy, and the attending cir
the conclusion is inevitable,
hat the greater amount of lunacy among
males, is occasioned by the greater a.
mount Of their vices.
2. OF the total number of cases, 1853
occurred among single persons, and
'nly 100 among the married. lf those.
single when becoming insane 1875, or
considerable majority of the whole num-
Der were never married, while II were
Widows, and 6 widowers. AS almost
he whole number in the Asylum are
crown persons, and as it is known that
If that class the greater part are married,
Is an irresistible conclusion that the |
married state is as favorable to the health |
If mind Us 1t unquestionably is to health
If body.
Of the married patients, the number is
equally divided between males and fe-
males; while of the unmarried, large
portion are males.
Sd. OF the causes of insanity, the fol-
owing are the chief: Religious excite
nent, 20; Ill health of various kinds, %;
ever, %; lntemperance, Is; Disarpon,-
ID love, 10; Domestic trouble of different
inds. 20; Other passions and vices, 80;
Notification or disappointment, l6.
The annals of the Lunatic Asylum are
ull of instruction on the want of self
'enial, or the proper regulation of the
PASSIONS. More than one half the whole
lumber of lunatics in the Asylum have
ONE there from The total acunt of res
rant upon their passions; in other
words, the want OF moral balance to their
llnds. How much of human wo, from
ne Poor House to the Lunatic ASYLUM.
) brought down upon the unfortunate bv
heir own neglect of that reason and
nowledge which God has given for
leir government!
in Intelligent Enghshman wen, to our
ashlonable livery stables, and ordered
orse and sleigh. While one of the me,.
'as harnessing the horse, the keeper of
he stable said S'Pul in that buffalo
he meaning of which our Yankee readers
I'LL understand without explanation. The
srrified Englishman exclaimed mo, no,
o, | want a horse" The order 10 put
/. the buffalo was repeated, when the
enlleman declared in an agony of excite
lent, that hewould not undertake to drive
buffalo nor risk his life with any such
hid animal in a sleigh, but would have
orse OR nothing. His alarm was at length
|levia'ed by seeing the buffalo skin pla-
Cd III the sleigh to protect him from the
old. Boston Courier.