Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-10-19
1osp1TAt PoR THf INSANE.


were kindly furnished with the follow
ing particulars:
The members composing the Board,
all of whom were present, are Col JAMES
WrrHRow, Of Lewisburg; DIR. NJ. CAMP
BELL, OF Petersburg; Hon. ]. W. GRAN
THAN, OF Middleway; Hon. Z. M.
BISHOP, Of Kingwood; Hon. j. L. ARM
STRONG, Of Ripley; Hon. W. L HEARNE'
of Wheeling; Hon. A. A. LEWIS, W. +.
LIVELY, Esq, and En-. RALsroS, ESQ., oil
Weston.
According to the Medical Superln-
,endent's report showing the move
ments Of the Hospital for the past year
there were under treatment at the close
OF the last annual report (Oct. l, 1879
S9l white and 90 colored patients. Total
All. The admissions since were rs,
and discharges 4s, "a cured and much
improved, and "a died, leaving in Hos
pital, Oct. /, 1880. 49l patients-oi
whom 253 males and pa females are
white and 8 males and IL females are
colored.
The whole number admitted to the
Institution from the beginning !s l,i24,
of whom 633 have been discharged,
leaving q remainder OF 49l.
The highest number under treatment
for the year just closed was 49l, the
lowest number iO4, and the daily aver.
age 4l2i.
The cost per week for each patient,
which covers all expenses for clothing,
fuel, food, officers, salaries, wages oil en-
ployes, &C., was 81 l7.S4-lOO.
of the patients now in Hospital, 10
b. long to Ohio county, 81 to Berkely'
30 to Harrison, IS to Jefferson, "A
to Kanawha, % to Marion, IL
to Mason, l3 to Preston, 10 to Put
nam, IL TO Randolph, l4to Richie, ii to
Taylor, l6 to Wood, Ito Barbour q to
Braxton, Z to Brooke, to Cabell, b to
Fayette, s to Gilmer, to Greenbrier, q
to Hamps shire, Sto Jackson, to Lewis
G to Logan, 5 to Mercer, 9 to Mononga-
liza, 5 to Monroe, to Morgan, . to Pen.
dleton, 6 to Pocahontas, 8 to Raleigh,
to Roane, 6 to Summers, to Tyler, q
to Uhspur, s to Wayne and s to Wetzel.
The other counties have less tlan five
each. Mcdowell is the banner county
of the State, as she has never had rep.
resentatiye in the institution accredited
to her.
The directors announce with much
pride and great satisfaction that the en-
tire hospital building is nearly finished,
and that all the patients in the jails OF
the State have been admitted to its
wards, and that there is sufficient room
to accommodate Gil Of the insane for
several years to come.
In the superintendent report, he
saws: GAS the Hospital is about finished
it will be OF interest to the citizens OF
the State to know something about this
magnificent structure, it's cost, &c.
There are near 800 acres OF land at
tached, mostly billy, and much OF it is
unfit for cultivation, but it produces
grass, and is well adapted for pasture.
About 100 acres are cleared, and part is
cultivated in garden truck production.
More land should be cleared and put in
cultivation, and will be as rapidly as
possible as money is appropriated, or as
We can by the work Of patients, as most
OF the land already opened was cleared
by them and attendants.
The Hospital building proper has
lineal length inside OF | ,2J5 feet inches,
and fronts 1,2ll feet inches, rs Sec
tons lap. There is also detached
brick hospital 5'x52 feet. square and
three stories nigh, which is used for
quiet patients. Also brick hospital
for the colored insane, which is in all
respects equal to the main hospital, and
the patients have the same care and at
ten,ion that the white insane have.
The cost of the main hospital was -. .S635, 900
| (rhis includes furnishing with inside fur
nit re, DC
The ..'I.l. out buildings, engine house,
| gas house. SC, brick and cOlored hospital
III round numbers l0oVUO
wv
The hospitals have capacity OF 625
patients, and venture the assertion
there are none more substantially built
and none more beautiful in structure
and cost less, than the West Virginia
hospital for the insane. 1t is built Of
solid blue sandstone. The walls are two
and two and one-half feet thick, the in
side backed up with brick, is finished
with white hard finish, and the general
plan OF construction is unsurpassed and
the State should be proud of this struc-
ture, dedicated as it is 10 suffering hui
manity.
There are in rooangsIs acres OF slate roof.
| - flooring 9acr,s.
" sewer pipc ~ miles.
| " /" heating pipe Is miles.
| ventilating pipe \ nile.
gas pipe p miles,
" water pipe II miles
spouting and draine pipe miles.
1t has 92l windows, 9C6 doors, one
tower 200 feet high, four do. $50 feet
high, one smoke and ventilating stack
IoO feet hiyh. To visit all the wards