Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-12-31

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we have before NJ an advance couv Of
'ne forthcoming annual reports Of the officers
OF the Maine Insane Hospital, and will make
comprehensive abstract of the same for the
Denefit Of our readers Who are interested in
this bene6cent institution.
The trustees. in their report. s.v that tho
hospital year just closing, has been one Of
marked success. The increased number of
recoverles, the diminished rate of mortality.
ehd the practical freedom Of the institution
| from debt, showing that its condition has
never been more satisfactory, and never was
IN state of greater prosperity and useful.
ness than it 10 today In the number Of ma.
tients admitted and cared for. there has been
. marked increase over any preceding wear
during the forty-fve years. existence of the
hospital, and the rate of mortality 10 lower
1nan the average for the preceding ten years.
Inc increased facilities for better claseifca-
tion OF inmates. afforded by the erection Of
new pavilions with modern conveniences and
wen ventilated rooms. has materially tended
to improve the condition of the patients. and
to increase the percentage of recoveries.
The money appropriated BY the legislature
Tor finishing and furnishing the new pavillons.
mas been wisely expended and the bills ap-
proved by the Governor and Council
ADDITIONAL attention has been given to ex.
| tending and improving the sanitary condition
OF the Hospital. The ventilation and drain
age in the basement of the female wings. have
| Deen attended to; also 10 the sewerage sys-
tenn, overhauling water closets, sinks and
water drains, remodeling bath rooms and
water closets. New and improved ventila-
tion and air ducts have been constructed to
carry on poisonous gases. Another season
the remainder OF the sewerage system should
De improved in an equally effective manner.
The products of the farm have been about
the average Of former years. There are now
upon the farm 30 cows, heifer.. oxen. I
two year old Holstein bull. horses and $50
swine Successful precautionary measures
were taken against the hog cholera which
prevailed the last year.
Among the future wants is change in the
method of drawing coal from the wharf; the
wharf should be enlarged; the ducts leading
from the basement OF the wings extended to
the laundry, and the capacity of the laundry
enlarged
| There are now % criminal insane persons
confined in the hospital. No provision ha,
been made for the separation of these patient,
from the others. The necessity of such sep.
aration is strongly urged.
! uC ioHk StAuuIuk uutSAncc-Iue Old OflCk
chapel. which ohstructs the view and dis
figures the otherwise beautiful landscape
Justly receives the attention of the trustees
They recommend its removal to the north o.
the laundry. and that it he raised sufficiently
to furnish an additional story.
The trustees speak in high terms of thu
continued and valuable services of the supern
tendent. DR. Bigelow T. Sanborn. In al
his efforts he has been ably seconded BY hi.
assistants, Drs. Hill and Davis. The othel
officers are also commended for their faithful
ness and efficiency. Tender and appreciativ,
words are said concerning the death of one o.
the trustees, Hon. Joseph T. Hinckley OF
Bluehill and the report of the trustees close,
with tribute to the late Gov Coburn, . life
long patron Of the hospital.
The board of trustees is composed of Jamei
Weymouth. Joseph H. Marley, Daniel o.
Bowen, Mrs. Emma J. Jersey, Elbridge A
Thompson, and Jeremiah W. Dearborn. In
behalf of the people of the State, we con
graduate them that under their manage
ment and carrying out of the measures which
they have suggested, the hospital is out OF
debt, with funds in the treasury.
The vital It stistics concerning the patients
are reached when we come to the repOr,
of the superini endrnt, DR.. B. T. Sanborn
The percentage of recoveries, based upon
admissions, exceeds the average for the past
ten years, being 80 10 per cent during the
present fiscal year; and 81 IS per cent dur.
ing the past decade. The Irecent.
age of recoveries during the past twelve
months exceeds the average for the last five
painful accidents, no homcides, and with
the exception of one suicide, nothing has
occurred to mar the comfort or well being
| of any resident of the hOsDital.
At the beginning of the year, Dec. /, 1884. there
resident in the Hospital 400 patients, 232 men
and 22s women. Two hundred and forty mine have
been admitted since-153 men and 90 women; max
ing the whole number under treatment 9-3s5 men
and 1924 women. OF these there We been discharged
2s Ia men and ~ wom ns leaving at the eo,e Of
and ninety eight of those admitted during the year
were their first admission, "A on their second IL
their third, on their fourth, on their fifth on
their sixth, on his tenth and on his thirteenth
Condition of those discharged: Recovered, S9-47
men and 80 women; improved. 81 80 men and Is
women; unimproved, lZ-S men and women, died
$50 men and "a women. OF the 80 discharged re.
| covered, 57-35 men and % women, were on their
first admission; l3-s men and women. were on
| their second; women on their third; men on
| their fourth; and men on their fifth.
| The causes of death were as follows: Acute
| mania, men; acute dementia, men; apoplexy. J
| men; anasarca, So men and women; chronic
| mania. 81 man and woman; cardiac disease,
woman; cancer of the liver. man; capillars bron.
chitis, woman; diarrhGa. ! man; epilepsy, %
| men and l woman; exhaustion from insanity, )
| women; general paralysis, s men; hydr0pericar
| dunn, men; phthisis pulmonais, St men and
| woman; pneumonia, men; paralysis. men; sen.
| lie dementia, 3 men; suicide, man: septaemia,
| man. spasm of the heart, woman; senility,
woman: termin / dementia, 49, men and Il
women. 49,
The assigned causes of insanity in those admitted
during the year follows: Business embarrass.
ment, men; critical period OF life, women; con-
| genital, man; cardiac disease, l woman; disap-
| pointed affections, man and women; domestic
| trouble, So men and women disease OF the
| spjne 2 women; domestic affection, 6-3 men and
| women; dissol Ite life. woman; desertion, z
| women; excessive venery, l man; epilepsy, III
| men and women; Ill health, 500 men and 20
women; incompetence. "a men; injury OF spne' 2.
| 1 man and woman; injury of head women; loss
| Of property, men; lactation, woman; masturba-
| ton, ii men; measles. man; over-exertion, Il!
| men and women; opium habit, FL man ana
| woman; puerperal. women; puberty. = woman,
| poverty, woman paralysis, o. men and woman !;
] senity, lis men and women; syphilis, women
spiritualism, woman; sunstroke. men; typhoid
| fever man; uterine disease, woman; unknown.
70-4s men and % women.
The social condition Of those admitted during the
wear VISA as follows; li3 were married--70 men and
n women 1903 were single-69 men and "a women {;
"a were widOwed-l4 men and ~ women. .
The occupation of those adm q to the hosptai
during the year was follows: Book keeper, men
baker | man barber, l man; butcher, man !;
blacksmith, man; brick mason, men; canvasser,
man: calker. man; commercial traveller, man /;
COOPER, one man; clerk, men; clergymen, man )
aomestc I6 women; dress maker, women; elocu
ZIONIST, man farmer, ~ men, freight agent, man
fisherman, 3 men; granite dealer, ! man, mousse
wife az women; housekeeper. n women; harness
maker. l man; ice DEALER man; laborer. 80 men I;
i,rr,ar 1 man Iumberman man musician, man (;