Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-02-05
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INSANE HOSPITALS.

mously passed ct the meeting of the Associa-
ton of Officers of Insane Asylums holden in
Madison, Wisconsin, in May last:
Rescluta. That this Association regards
the custom of admitting greater number of
patients than the buildings can properly ac-
commodate, which is now becoming so COM
mon in Hospitals for the Insane in nearly
every section Of the country, as an evil of
great magnitude, productive Of extraordinary
dangers, subversive of the good order, per-
feet discipline and greatest usefulness oftheae
institutions, and Of the best interests of the
insane.
ReSolfel, That this Association, having re-
peatedly sfIirmed its we'll matured convictions
Of the humanity, expediency and economy of
every State making ample provision for all
its insane, regards it as an important means
of elfecting this object that these institutions
should be kept in the higest state Of efficiency,
and the difference in condition of patients
treated in them, and those kept in almshouses,
jails, or even private houses, be thus most
| clearly demonstrated.
Resolved, That while fully recognizing the
great suffering and serious loss that must re-
suit to individuals by their exclusion from
hospitals when laboring nnder an attack of
insanity, this Association fully believes that
| the greatest good will result to the largest
number, and at the earliest day, by the adop-
ton Of the course now indicated.
RcSolre4, That the boards of management
of the different hospitals on this continent be
urged, most earnestly, to adopt such meas
ures as will effectually prevent more patients
being admitted into their respective institu-
tons, than, in the opinions of their superin-
tendents, can be treated with the greatest eff
ficiency, and without impairing the welfare
of their fellow sufferers.
Rasolrea, That the Secretary be instructed
to furnish copy of these resolutions to the
boards of management of the different hospi-
tails for the insane in the United States and
the British Provinces.
A GREAT NAUTICAL FEAT
The Geographic report of the late voyage o
the clipper ship Young America shows, per-
haps, the most extraordinary run ever made
from Liverpool to San Francisco. The time
was ninety nine days, and the course lay
over that long and perilous stretch of ocean
around Cape Horn, a. least fifteen thousand
miles. This splendid feat of seamans ship re-
wives the long-agitated question how far i'm
proved models of sailing ships, guided by the
best lights of nautical science, will compare in
speed with steam driven vessels, and whether
they may not yet outstrip steam itself. 1t is
far too common mistake to suppose that such
fast runs are attributable to a streak of good
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