The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-11-27
TERRELL ASYLUM.
EXTRACTS FROM THE SIXTH ANNUAL
REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT
WALLACE.
The Institution Very Prosperous and Nov
ing Along Well Movement of the
Population.


been issued, and from it the following
extracts are taken:
There remained October 81, 1899,
males, 2G2; females, 1859; total, sol.
Of these there were in good health
males, III; females, 179; total, 304,
In feeble health-males, %; females,
81: total, So. In bad health-males,
3 females, 4 F.; total, 7.
Admitted in 1SS5-males, so; fe-
males, %; total so. In 1SS6-males,
So; females, 55 total, 81. In 1857
males, As; females, 40; total, IS. In
1SSS-males, 81 females, 33 ; total, TO-
In 1889, up t October 3l-males, 80;
females, 81 total, l07.
Of these there dieG-Males, IL; fe-
males, 6; total, II. Recovered-males,
20; females, %; total. 43. Improved
males, 4; females, q total 6. I'm
improved-female, |.
Discharged during the year of those
remaining October 81, 1889: Died,
recovered, improved and unimproved-
males, So; females, 80; total, So. Re
naming October 81, 1890 - males,
1877 ; females, 1870; total, BAT.
OF the II deaths there died of con-
sumption, 5 epilepsy, 4 congestion Of
the lungs, B; exhaustion OF mania, l;
general debility l paresis, l paraly-
sis, exhaustion of melancholia, l.
Admitted during the year ending
October 81, 1S90-males, Isl females,
113; total, 264.
OF these there were in good health
males, 1875; females, 80; total, 2OS.
In feeble health-males, Is; females,
90; total, 35. In bad health-males,
10; females, IL total, 81.
Of this number S5 had been insane
less than one month, 81 less than
three months, 81 less thar six months,
% less than twelve months, 60 over
one year.
OF those admitted during the year
there were discharged-males, IS; ie-
males, 80; total, III. Died-males
IL; females, 2; total, Is. Cured
males, IS; females, 20; total, 81. I'm
proved-females, 6; total 6. Unim
proved-males, 2; females, 2 total, A.
OF those dying-from general de-
hility, 9; tuberculo is, mesenteric, l
Gdema of lungs, l +; exhaustion, acute
melancholia, L; per carditis, /;
cerebitis, 2; injury, L; tuberculosis,
pulmonary, 2; exhaustion, acute
mania, / epilepiic CONFUSION, l,
OF Il ose admitted during the year
there were married 66 males and 81
females; single, "a males and 90 fe'
males widowed, l male and 8 females.
The book keepers report shows the
following:
Total expenses. ....... $9S,369 90
Less private patients I'D 50 O34 So
Less PRINT property l3.65S Is
Less amt pd on artn we'll 1857 80
Actual running exp. 67,257 %
Average patients 435, which gives a
cost per capita of 1854 81 for the year.
Various Improvements have been
made in the way of buildings, ETC.,
without any additional cost for labor
RECOMMENDATIONS AND SUGGEST ms.
tits respectfully suggested that in
lieu OF jury trial as precedent to the
admission of pauper patients to the
insane asylums of the state, in accord
ance with articles LOG to ia inclusive
of the lunacy laws regulating the adj
mission of patients, that it be COM
petent for the county judge, upon in
formation, under oath of a near rela-
ton, or in the absence Of any such
relation, of responsible party, that
an individual is insane and ought, for
his own benefit and that of the COM
munity, to be sent to an asylum for
restraint and treatment, tn issue his
warrant of commitment based upon
such information and the written
opinion OF two reputable practitioners
Of medicine that the party is insane
and requires asylum restraint and
tire ltment.
2. That some law be devised, if any
is possible, for the purpose OF hasten
ing and facilitating the admission into
the asylums of the state of all insane
persons while as yet the malady is
recent or presumably durable; other.
wise to give bond in sufficient security
that they never become a charge to
| the state.
3. 1t is respectfully recommended
that the law regulating the admission
of pay patients into the asylums OF
the state be so modified at least as To
put them upon the same footing as
pauper patients. AS explanatory Of
this recommendation it may be men
toned that great numbers are ex-
cluded from all asvlum treatment
whatever (being unable to go abroad
TO private asylums and having some
means), not being proper subjects OF
the asylums of the State. The
asylums are always full, and paupeI
patients have the preference. Nc
pay patient has been admitte into
this institution during the last two
years. At least fifty have applied
some of these have gone abroad tC
private asylums, but most of them
unable to afford the expense of traveI
and costly asylum residence, have
peen practically denied the benefit o.
treatment.
4. That the law requiring superin-
| tendents of the asylums of the state