Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-02-03
BENEVOLENT INSTITUTIONS.
More Accounts Of the Work They Have
Done In Utah.
CARE FOR THE USroRTUSArEs.
Interesting Reports Of Secular and
Church Charitable Societies
4 rritoriai Organization.

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Ferry. DR.. w. II. Pike READ ap
elaborate and interesting paper on tho
cure and
TREATMENT OF THE INSANE.
He began by outlining the meIhous
employed in caring for that uu'O''u.
nate class In the pr Christian era 'ne
phases Of madness noted In the ofeeA
mythology and drama. In 'hs' hs'
thu Greeks considered insanity primer
p.IIv with regard to protecting the
public from harm, rather than from
feelings OF charity towards the unfortu'
nate. The Romans were much more
copsiJerate than the Greeks In the
treatment OF the insane, and obtained
halter results. In the earlier centuries
Egypt, the cradle Of medicine, was
said TO have district system for the
care of the weak minded. In tue
oriental nations there was a genera
belief that spirits Of the insane were IN
heaven, while their physical parts re-
manned on earth, and hence they Were
considered the most fortunate OF men
References TO madness were numsI-
Gus In the Old Testament Undouoleuly
diseases OF the mind were Ms OLD M the
world. Improper food, overexeiuon'
strong passions Of the mind Anu poi
sons were stated by the anclcnts rs oe-
Ing the causes OF insanity. Inc IecoIos
as a whole tended to show that coirec'
methods of treatment were In voBue NJ
the beginning Of tns Christian era,and
tbat Institutions for the insane existed
then. In the nlst century the phyri'
clans were a. far advanced In diagnosis
A. those Of later times were up TO Anew
years ago. .,
DIR. pike named some OF the grtM
lights In the healing art curing the
first six centuries OF the Christian era,
and traced the course OF the science
through the dark ages, when the belle!
that the insane were possehseu oi
devils aud should he burned becam.
rooted and thousands OF insane were
burned. while there were many -acri-
fee, TO witchcratt. In time, institu.
lions were created for the treatment OF
Iupatics, but the treatment was worse
than death ut the stake until quite
recent times.
Ths changes which had taken place
in this and every other civilized couh.
try since 1850 were wonderful. The
insane person was no longer looked
upon ~ one possessed OF demon, ou'
~ the most unfortunate oil MS race,
and everything possible was done 10
care for his physical wants anu Tor the
maintenance Of health. lmpfoveu
methods Of treatment now resulted In
from ~ 70 w per cen' W '"
A few years ago Utah was an un.
named spot ON tho map. In this de.
velopmsnt and progress that had been
made since the settlement OF the Ter
ritory the claims OF the insane had
been recognized. In 1850 an appropria-
tion OF $4,000 was made BY tho legis
lsture to commence this building OF an
Asylum. At the next session $3O,OOO
was appropriated and In the past
twelve years Utah had appropriated
q sum sppYoximating S75O,0OO for
the care OF the insane. During the
wear ending November 30th last, ISL
patients had been received Mt the
asylum, Of whom I'll were males, OF
the total number, l3S patients had been
discharged, while so had died, leaving
1888 patients In the asylum ON Novom.
Der SOth last. Since Its establishment
thirty per cent OF the patients had been
discharged from the asylum cured,
while twenty -one per cent had died.
The treatment was based upon that
followed In the best Institutions OF the
Kind in the country. Restraint was
not exercised except when necessary,
and all that could be done for the com
fort of the unforlu mates was done.
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DEAF "'iN
Prof, +. w. Metcalf read tho follow
ing report on education OF the deaf ana
in Utah: Gas a preface to my report
on education OF the deaf OF Utah,
wish 10 say that am here touay, not
becauss the Utah school for the deaf 10
a charitable Institution, but because l
think the public should know more OF
our work than they do, and am glad
to improve this opportunit OF impart-
ing Information regarding this branch
of the public school system OF our Ter.
ritory. People generally have an idea
that = school for the deaf In deaf mute
ipstitutlon, II you pleased, Ia some sort
of an nsylum, that its work Ia one OF
charity.
"AIsny OF the older schools have had
to work for wears to make people see
that the object OF a school for the deaf
was purely educational; that II was no
more charitable than the district
school, the normal or the university.
They are all In sense charitable, for
A.. .,,,....,.tA ~ that