Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-01-05
NORTH CAROLINA.
NEWS NOTES aArHEsEp FROM VARIOUS
POINTS.
The Raleigh Insane Asylum-rhe Necessity
for characterization
TO Take Place.
Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch

RA1RroH. n. c., January 4, 1883.
The ineaue asylum here, which was
never even when crowded intended Tor
more than $50 persons, to-day contains
272. There are 292 patients, but twenty
are AZ their homes ION trial " or expert
mental discharge-that is, they are pa
tients who have improved 80 that they
can be sent home to test the effect of the
old surroundings. II they continue i'm
proved they are dropped from the roll,
but il they are not cured they can
be at any time within the Pc
Rod allowed returned without the
formality of recommittal in accord
ance with the provisions of the Code.
The superintendent OF the asylum, Dr.
Eugene Grissom, who is, by the way,
one of the ablest alievists in this coun-
try. tells me that never before were the
demands for the admission OF patients
so numerous or 50 pressing. AT least
$50 are on file. A great many OF
these are for persons who need
immediate attention. Scores of persons
who are either curably or incurabiy In
sane are now in jails or poorhouses IN
the section OF the State east OF Raleigh.
Some are cared for at their homes. But
il is dreadful state OF affairs when one
contemplates the condition OF these IN
fortunates in such jails and poorhouses
as are the rule in North Carolina. The
ASYLUM is more crowded than since
it was opened, more than thirty
wears ago. AS rapidly as patients
are dropped from the rolls the
cases in the poorhouses aud work
houses replace them. Last summer
there was good deal OF sickness at this
asylum, mainly of a typhoid or malsrial
type. For some years there has been
considerable in the summer season. The
mortality has ranged from to 8 per
cent This summer extensive efforts
were made to improve the sanitary con-
dition of the asylum by carrying
the sewerage further. Special attention
was also paid the ventilation, &C., and new
apparatus was put in. The results, as
DIR. Grissom gives them to me to-day,
were that during the year out OF tota
of 800 patients only eight died, whicf
was only q per cent. This Is
fine showing since the average, taking
all the institutions of this character II
the country, was about Z per cent. Tor
series of years. There are 800 patients
at the Moreanton asylum, and there are
about 1S5 at the Goldsboro' asylum
The latter institution is for the coloret
race. The asylum here should be so en-
Iarqed as to accommodate $50 patients
The matter is one of extreme interest
Mr.. G.. d. Rand, who has for some
years been a very prominent business
man here, goes to Richmond to maxi
that city his home. North Carolinian
always feel very much at home in 'ir
ginis, and he will prove no exception L
that general rule.
No further steps are being taken to Sc
cure the Communication of the death-sen
tence of Charles F. Jones, the Crayel
county wife-murderer, and he IS practl
callv sure to swing at Newberne on TIT
11t6 instant. There will also be an exc
cution at Oxford this month, the victim
being an incendiary.
The truckers in the Newberne section
are making arrangements to put IN larg'
crops for the coming season: They ar
now getting ready to put in radishes
their first shipping vegetable.
General Deputy j. t. Eaton, o
the State Grange, begins this month
special work in delivering addresses t.
the public. He is now in the easter
part of the State. It's expected that tn
increase in Grange membership this yea
will be very large. The efforts to exten'
it are very earnest as well as general.
The press of the State has again take
mp, and very heartily, the discussion
the Blair bill. 1t appears that not owe
four or five papers oppose it, aud NOR
than O hundred are its earnest advocates
There is a prevalent belief that at las
Congress Will do something in this MAJ
ter. North Carolina, it may be pointed
said. demands the passage of the Blal
bill and a reform of the internal-revenu
laws.