Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-12
THE PAUPER INSANE.
Measure Before the Legislature That
Will Benefit This City.
PITTSBURG HAS TO FOOT THE BILL.
The State Does Not Help Support Those
in Local Asylums.
NO ROOM IN TIE OTHER INSTITUTIONS

Chief Elliot. of the Department of Chari-
ties, thinks that the State of Pennsylvania
owes the city of Pittsburg q number of
Thousands of dollars for taking care of the
pauper insane, and he has made up his
mind to get some of it, if not all. if there is
any possible way by which he can compass
the object.
Some time ago Representative Emmett
E. Cotton introduced bill in the House
providing for the repayment to the
city of the amount of money spent
by Pittsburg in taking care Of the paupers
in the department for the insane of the
almshouse. The amount for which the bill
calls is S95. 900, and this extends over the
period since the authorities at Dixmont re-
fused to receive any more patients from the
city. the reason given being lack of room.
The bill was referred to the Finance Com
mittee.
Data for the Legislature.
Mr.. Cotton has been keeping sharp
watch upon it, and it was on the programme
for hearing before the committee last
night Chief Elliot yesterday sent to Mr..
Cotton a statement of the number of people
who had been kept at the almshouse since ad-
mission was refused them at Dixmont, the cost
per patient, and lot of other data that would
tend -o stranothan tho ,,Io. of Tho citv for re
lief
Chief Elliot bases his application upon the
fact that the Commonwealth makes an annual
appropriation, or rather bi-annual appropria-
ton, TO the State hospitals for the insane poor.
He says that because the public Institutions
have not sufficient capacity to accommodate
why a city that takes care of its own insane
should be deprived of proper share of the
1und several years ago the ofnclais at DIX
oon'r, S ~, ~ i. rta ay rS la ron,, for
them
wbo-. ,,,. Sto.. p.u
men, saiu lne Chiei' we ntteo up an au-
dft1on to the almShouse and there we have been
taking care of these people. Icontend that the
State owes ms the money we have snent in car
inc, for on, cur ;r,ano 1ha St.to n.rs % ,ar
ing ,ot oui o"n insane tue o'"'e peys g pei
week for each pauper patient in State hospi-
tai, the remainder of the cost being paid by
the city or comfy tn which the inmate il cred.
1ted The calculation is thar it REQUIRES about
So rs per veeS for each patien.. mat leaves
81 75 to be made up by those who send them
there For the Inmates at Dixmont sent there
by this city we pay 81 rs each, and the State 81
each
"That is as il should be. We have now a. the
almshouse 2Ol insane patients whom the city
has to keep without any outside help. In other
and thew have The hanegt of one aniv The
State should either increase the size of its hos.
pitfalls or else allow us the same as is given for
the support OF those III state institutions
nausrpnia T mas .ne same ulnicu.y ss a. is.s
n III H III sosos att,paS 80. aS rosnIt
nLou!e al Inc ;ases oneteu, anu @ % ; . ,uSus ~
a .s q @ CA III ~ ;,u hno 20 80
Iacneu 70 Its aim snouse' ANU ING oi'y h"e " pay
all Inc expenses.
State Asylums Overcrowded
The Legislature hes asked the Committee on |
T.,,.o, oe ,ha poard of r,h.-,,;es to sroaast a
- - s.s s..; -
remedy Ior the oVercro~oeo cohoiIon OIL tne
State insane asylums. The committee has |
sketched a plan and at meeting in Phila- |
delpb,a TODAY the snbiect will he finally dis.
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