Evening journal., 1894-12-31
OUR INSANE HOSPITAL.
SUPERINTENDENT AND TRUSTEES
SUBMIT THEIR WORK.


ssme Causes OF Insanity As Attribu ted
Among Those Patients Now Being
Treatsd In the Institntion--Need Of
Riore Room and Bafdings.
The reports of Superintendent Hanok-
or and the Board or Trustees OF the
State Hospital at FArnhurst for the third
biennial Issue is pamphlet remarkable
for Its neAtness and full OF interesting
| information about one of the best con
Quoted institutions for the insane In the
East
Among the interesting features noticsd
| Is the success at farming which the
milder class of inmates have had. From
December l. 1892, they have raised and
the superintendent has sold produce as
1 follows:
Beans, ss baskets, s2s.35; beets, 447
bunches. $l4 "a; cabbage, 1,l97 baskets,
$3O4 30; corn, 1l,l25 ears, $lO5.2si
corn, 46 bushels, $1495; carrots,
kets, So; onions, 73 baskets, 500 38;
onion setts. 81 bushels, so 75 peas, forty
one baskets, $40 90 ;parsnips, 12l baskets,
| $50. 25 potatoes, 406 baskets, $141 40 I;
radishes. 3, ,5s1 punches. $74 81; squash,
| 800. IS AZ; tomatoes, $40 baskets, $125 "a;
turnips 1, ,46S baskets, $345 25; turnip
green's, 100 baskets, $l4 20, total,
81, 344 OIL
Women In the institution made 8, 276
articles in the seamstress line. The
causes of insanity of those admitted Is
attributed thus: Intemperanee, 32
senility, II; III health, a. III health and
heredity, 3; venerlal excssses, i;
congenital, s; injury OF head, 2; sun.
stroke, z; Ia grippe, 9; hersdity. IS;
heredity and intempersnee, 3; hersd-
ty and III health. 3; heredity
and financial troubles, / exces.
sive venery and intempsrance, 8;
epilepsy, IA; overwork, ! masturbation,
6; grief. 15; domestic troubles, 2; III
health and uterine troubles, 2; nostalgia,
IL; puarperAl. Q fright. 2; unknown, 23
not insane. 1; total, 1856.
Superintendent Hancker con cludes by
: thanking these kind friends who have
helped literally during the year;
The gentlemen OF the ministry from
Wilmington and vicinity, we are under
special obligations to for holding divine
services on the Sabbath; Mary McGInnis
Of Bancrofts Banks, for illustrated
/ papers Christmas cards etc MRS. j. Il.
Paynter, of Georgetown, for magazines,
illustrated papers, etc. First Presby
terian Church choir. of Wilmington. FOR
two delightful concerts; st. PaulE
Church choir, of Wilmington, for z
concert; s.to Mrs. Thomas Benson, and
Miss Mary X. Thielman, who
: have so willingly and often
) aided us by singing during divine
=. services, we are under lasting obligR.
j tions: Professor Wallsnith and or
/, chestra, for Eve vocal and instrumental
;, concerts; McCrAcken family, Of VIII.
mington, for concert; O. A. O. min
, strels, OF New Castle, for minstre
!, entertainment; Young Mems Temper
once Reform Club, Of New Castle, TO
:. an entertainment; Wilmington Minstre
), Troupe, for a delightful minstre
Q entertainments; Y W. O. T. u and Y
= NJ. I. R Club, OF New Castle
who visited us during the holi
idays, and distributed oranges cakes
etc to our patients; Bishop Coleman, 70
3 a numter OF Episcopal Hymnals; t. n
= Stayton, box Of oranges; 3. M. Reynold
& Co., q box of oranges and othe
j donations too numerous to mention II
Z detail; L. F. Nelson, turkeys and BARR
:, OF apples; zsbulon Hopkins, barrel Q
Z fruit Henry Roller, cakes for the entir
u houshold on Christmas; WilmIngto
" Bible Society, for number Of bibles 1
German and English; w. M. Cramer, 70
Il papers. magazines, etc
q The trustees concluded their part o
the report to the governor by saying;
Now we approach even more seriou
question. ~he hospital Is overcrowdeC
al No amount OF money expended on th
n present buildings can make them avail
able, as a modern hospital should ava
a for the number Of inmates who no.
come 1lmping to our doors.
sa 1--WE need new buildings, and the onl
ir economical and philanthropic method 70
IN Delaware to pursue Is to build them
as and equip them at once, and thus kee
We to the front with the only state institu
de ton she possesses. These new building
are particularly needed for the noisy
violent and unclean patients. and al
costly TO build. Until the state fun
y, nishes them, her state hospital will onl
nc be laughed at by all people expert l
or such matters who visit it, To trs'
Al these additions and furnish the
40 properly, supplying a general electr
~ plant, or arranging to take light froi
ne the Wilmington system, the pre-
ne ent method of lighting being o
80 iectionable In every way, will co
thirty-6ve thousand dsllars Giv'
these buildings and Iufnlsnlhke, u
state will then have a modern hospiti
~ well equipped, to which we can invite
" number OF pay patients, and thus Il
n crease our present income from su
PATIENTS to from one thousand, to o
~, thousand two hundred dollars ?
- month, a sum sufficient to pay all inte
OH est; and much more. the state will oN
the buildings. Taking this view, t
people will have 3 model state hospi
ice sufficient for present needs, with
ck- actual increase of yearly expense,
buildings representing the outlay"