Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-02-17
Ecening Session.

The evening session was opened at 7:3(
o'clock with an address by ex-Gov Davis, who
read an able and elaborate essay, on the sub.
ject of sanitary reform as constituting a
prime factor in the welfare of the State. He
said if the State were defined as social organ
ization, whose object it is to protect from crime
to punish crime when committed and to re-
press and control, as far as possible, the
causes which lead to the commission of crime,
arbitrary conditions that bind the State were
was given of the status of the individual
and his responsibility to the State.
Prof. Noyes, of the asylum for the deaf and
dumb at Faribault, read an interesting paper
on the hygiene for the deaf, dumb and blind.
The paper first alluded to the success of the
treatment in use at the asylum at Faribault.
During the first thirteen years not death had
occurred, with an average attendance of fifty
PATIENTS during the past five and half years
two deaths had occurred, neither of which had
reflected on the sanitary condition of the asy-
lum.
The asylum was founded in 1868, with eight
mutes. In 1866 the blind department was
established, with three patients; at present
there were 10 deaf and dumb patients, ten
blind patients, and over twenty imbeeile
children.
While many of the patients were in feeble
health when they entered, they usually left in
good health. This was attributed to regular
habits, plain, wholesome food, pure air and
water, exercise, fresh air, bright, sunny and
well ventilated rooms.
DIR. R1cHELDAFFER.
DR.. Richeldafer, of the State reform school,
addressed the society on the methods of man.
agement in vogue at that institution. In re-
ferring to the sanitary condition of the school
the speaker said that the health of the chill.
dren was almost perfect; it was a remarkable
fact that in family of $50 children there was
not single case of sickness in year.
The causes of this were given;
attributed to the good constitutions of the
inmates, as many of the children were taitned
and worn with disease when they came to the
school. The first factor was cleanliness; no
week passed without thorough ablution;
the surroundings were clean and wholesome;
next came regularity and exercise.
DIR. BoARDMAN.
A very entertaining address was next given
by DR.. Boardman, of this city. The speaker
first called attention to the intimate associa-
LlOu OI JuSG SdulbdIy COuuItlOuo Will blu pcaCeS
health and happiness of mankind. The speak
er Justly condemned the building of large and
costly edificss for the insane; he referred to
the overcrowded hospitals at st. Peter, and the
system of promiscuous crowding of patients
was condemned in the strongest terms. There
were $4,000 insane persons in the United
States, so per cent. of which, or $4,000, were
kept at the public charge.
It cost $19,0O0,000 to erect and maintain
buildings for the keeping of these patients, or
a cost Of 1893 per capita. The first consid-
Grafton for reform was the necessity Of sep
Grating the hopelessly incurable from those
who are durable. The speaker alluded in
strong terms of condemnation to the per-
nicious systems in vogue at our large, expen-
sive and overgrown asylums. The superin-
tendent must not only be physician but he
IL required to attend to the management Of
the establishment from the laundry to the
slaughter house. The speaker said that the
managers of the hospitals for the insane in
the State were entitled to credit for doing so
much in spite of the vicious systems.
After general discussion the meeting ad-
journed until this morning.
In the forenoon lecture will be given on
Municipal HYGIENE and the Rev. DR.. Tenn
pie lectures on the "Hygiene of the Home"
Mayor Rand and President Fallows will lec-
ture in the evening. The subject of diphtheria
will also be discussed to-day.