Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-12-21
TENNESSEE HOSPITAL FOR THE IN.

TENNESSEE HOSPITAL FOR THE IN.
SANE.
The biennial reports Of the Trustees
and Superintendent Of this institution
have been submitted to the Legislature,
and the pamphlet containing them put 10
print A copy lies upon our table, which
furnishes the following facts The whole
number of patients remaining in the
Tennessee Hospital for the Insane, at the
date of the last general report, April |,
1865, was one hundred and seventy, of
whom there were ninety~four men and
seveniy~six women. There have been
admitted since that date, and prior to
October /, 1867, two hundred and sixty
three-one hundred and sixty-three meI,
and one hundred women The whole
number subject to treatment within the
period above mentioned, is four hundred
aud thirty-three, from which deduct the
number discharged, one hundred and
eighty-six, and the remainder in the in
stitution to-day, exclusive of the colored
insane, two hundred and forty-seyen.
OF those mentioned as discharged,
ninetyotwo were restored, forty-four
improved, five were taken away without
perceptible Improvement, nine eloped,
and thirty-six died.
Several of the coIored insane Of the
State were received and provided for prior
to the legislation of 1865. Subsequently,
however, to the act of May, 1866, all this
class Of patients for whom application
has been made, whether by the Freed
mems Bureau, or otherwise, were re-
ceiyed.
OF the African race, there have been
received and treated twenty -nine-thir-
teen men and sixteen wOmen-and have
been discharged two men, and one wo>
man restored Two men have died of
Inflammation of the brain, leaving in the
hospital, lst of October, 1867, twenty~four
colored
The aggregate number of white and
colOred insane now in the two build-
ings, and subject to treatment, is two
hundred and seventy>cne
The entire expenditures Oft the Ten
nessee Hospital for the Insane,
from April ], 1865, to October /,
1867, has 1893 27G
The entire expense, per annum, in
Guiding improvements and re-
pairs, has been....................... 55,9l7 50
The Superintendent, Dr. W. p. Jones,
in his general remarks regarding the
hospital and its concerns alludes to va
rious matters, none, however, possessing
special interest to the public A state
ment is made of the cost of the addition
to the buildings for the accommodation of
the colored insane, 1924 ,O99 COZ, with the
following suggestion:
"To thoroughly complete the Asylum for
the colored insane will require an addi-
lars. Neither the water-supply, heating
apparatus, plumbing, plastering of walls,
gassftting, sewerage, shields for windows,
the construction Of water-closets, or lodges,
were included in the estimate given the
builders. The first item will cost from
$500 to $2500, the third, including gas
fitting, $3.50.
respectfully request, therefore, that the
General Assembly appropriate, without de-
lay, $1,000 additional, to complete the Asy-
lum for the colored insane. This will en-
able us to provide comfortably for fifty CO.
lored patients, and probably to meet all de-
mands of this kind for the next ten or
twenty years. Tennesseans having been
the first people in the South to provide thus
kindly and amply for a portion of their
former servants, 1 imagine will not stop
short of making the provision thorough"