The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-11-14
THE INSANE OF THE STATE.
Important Meeting Yesterday OF the
Conference Committee of the Asy.
lums. the State Medical Board and
Board OF Health.

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Board OF Health.
The State Medical Society at its meet
ing at Oxford in May last adopted a res
olution looking to the better care Of the
insane of the State and also to the treat
ment Of the inebriate class, and in furth-
erance Of the action taken by this body,
a conference committee composed of
representatives of the three insane asy-
lums and of the State Medical Society
and the Board of Health was held at the
Yarboro House in this city yesterday.
There we're present DR. ". R. Wood,
Superintendent, and r. n. Smith, ESD,
and Capt. Octavius Coke, directors of
the North Carolina Insane Asylum; Dr.
P. L. Murphy, Superintendent, and Di-
rector j. z. Caldwell, Of the Western
North Carolina Insane Asylum; Dr.. J.
F. Miller, superintendent of the Eastern
Insane Asylum; Drs. J. A Hodges, of
Fayetteville, and J. NJ. Baker, of Tar
boro, representing the State Board of
Health, and DR.. J. M. Hays, of Oxford,
representing the State Medical Society.
DR.. Frank Duffy, of New Berne, sat with
the committee and DR.. E. Burke Hay
wood was present for a short time
Dr.. Hodge was invited to preside
over the conference and DR.. Hays W S
requested to act as secretary.
There was full and very interesting
discussion Of the whole matter in hand
and it was brought out that all of the
} asylums Of the State are full, and some
of them overcrowded, and it was resolv-
ed that the Legislature, at its session to
begin in January, be asked to make ap-
preparations for the elargement of these
institutions so that the many unfor-
tunates now confined in jails and poor
houses Of the State may have the benei!
of asylum care and treatment.
a 1t was proposed on the part of the
;, Western North Carolina Insane Asylum
that its name be changed to The State
g Hospital at Morganton, and that it b,
e permitted to utilize certain wards il
d which it is not practicable to care 70
insane persons, for the treatment of III
ebriates under proper restrlction-th
number not to exceed twelve of eacl
sex-and these to pay such charges a
may be fixed by the board Of directors
except in the case of INDECENT persons
The provision as to charge is not with
s. view to profit bat IN order that the elias
referred to may not become burde
: upon the State.
DR.. J. NJ Baker for the Eastern dl:
er trict, and Mr.. ]. P. Caldwell for th
Sc Western, were appointed committee
ie collect statistics of inebrlety, idlocy an
y. imbeciiity and also of the number of IL
id sane in the State outside of the Asylum
1t was further resolved to ask tt
er legislature to amend section 2255 of ii
e. Code so that criminals, ordered comm
G; ted by criminal judges, may not hay
ry precedence of the innocent insane, bl
p be admitted under the same regulation
e that govern all other cases.
is A committee, to be composed of Cap
Octavius Coke, of the North Carolll
Insane Asylum as chairman the chai
man of the board of directors of Il
other two asylums;a a representative b
nd sides of each of the three asylums; d
ed J A. Hodges of the State Board
ur Health; Dr. J. NJ. Hays of the Sta
Ve Medical Society, and Dr. E. Burke Ha
dy wood, chairman of the State Board
th Charities, was appointed by the confe
ur ence to go before the legislative comm
tly tees and ask for the special appropriate
Try for enlargement, for the changes IN {
isting and for the new provisions Of Il
outlined above.