The Washington times., 1894-10-09
Increase of Patients at the Hospital
for the Insane.
COXEY'S ARMY RESPONSIBLE
Recommends the Employment Of Trained
Colored Nursss-Annual Report on Af-
fairs at the Reform School.

| twenty-five years of its existence ], 1,919 boys
have been received. At the commencement
of the last fiscal year there were 2O4 on the
roll, and 121 were received during the year,
making total of 1926, as against 2s9 last
| year.
There were discharged during the year. by
order of the board, 107; by order Of court,
change of sentence, /; by expiration of SEN
| tence u; absent without leave, 4; in school at
close OF year, 201. But twelve deaths have
occurred in twenty-five years, and there was
none last year. This mortality-less than
| three-fourths of / per CENTS stated to be
less than that of any other similar institution
| in the country.
The items estimated for are as follows:
! Superintendent. 81 900; assistant superinten-
! dent, $500; teachers and assistant teachers,
| $500; matron, 5000; three matrons of faml-
! lies, $3.50 each; three foremen Of workshops,
| 81 $50; one farmer, $3.50; one engineer, 1896;
| assistant engineer, $500; watchmen. not ex-
! ceeding six 81 ,140; secretary and treasurer
/ OF board OF trustees. 5000, other employees.
! S2,476; total, S14, ,412. For support of in
mates, 200; for new bake oven, including
! brick building for same. 81. 900: for new roof
and other repairs TO buildings, 81, 900; for
fencing farm. $500; for painting new family
building, $500. For new family building-two
! teachers, 81 ,260; one watchman, S270; one
matron, 180-S1, ,710. Total. S47.772.
An appropriation of 900 was made by
! Congress for the erection of a new family
! building TO accommodate fifty boys and
! l,200 to furnish the same. The building has
! been completed and furnished but owing to
| the failure TO appropriate for the necessary
| officers the building remains unoccupied and
must remain so until Congress provides
| funds. The sum OF S3033.74 was paid over
to the treasurer from the proceeds of the farm
! labor.
Supt. Shalenburg states that for the past
! fiscal year the pro rata cost of all food sup
! plies purchased and consumed by the school
! has been a fraction less than IL cents per
! day; for clothing. medicines and medical at
! tendance, 6 cents per day: for fuel gas light.
| and house furnishings of all kinds, So cents
| per day; salaries, y = cents per day; miscel-
! laneous items, g. cents per day.
ROSE INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL.
! The report OF the president of st. Roses
/ Industrial School, for the year ended June
! 80, 1894 was submitted to the Commissioners
yesterday. The children in this school are
/ the orphans transferred from st. Vincent's
! Asylum and by the Humane Society and
| other institutions. 1t was established in the
year 1872, and for twenty-five years has been
! In charge OF the Sisters of Charity. The work
connected with the misunderstanding
! sewing. washing. and repairing-is done by
! the sisters and the inmates, without charge
upon the appropriation. The total expendi-
lures for labOring, including two servants and
watchman. were 81 ,140.
The average number OF inmates during the
/ year was 70; number on the rolls on last day
of fiscal year. 20; admitted during year, 20;
! left the institution 2S; situations were OBJ
tanned for Il; returned to friends, II; trans
| ierred 10 other institutions, 3. There were
no deaths.
The receipts were: From public funds,
So 953; work Of inmates. So 500; other
sources, 81. .O25; total S7,47S.
The sum of $4,000 is asked for to assist in
| defraying the expense of maintenance for the
coming year.
The annual report submitted from the Hos
pital for the Insane by President Toner, sup
, plemented by a statement from Supt God
ding, shows 36l admissions during the year,
an excess over any year since the war. The
| mortality is reported TO be a little more than
10 per cent Of the daily average under care
and a little less than So per cent. of the
/ aggregate under treatment. The industrals
who visited Washington are credited with
having caused the increase in the number.
The number of patients June 80, 1898, was
1920 making the total to be accounted for
1881. There were 1.6Sl patients in the hos
pital June 80, 1894.
An appropriation of 1858, 900 for current
| expenses. S16,0 900 for general repairs. S25, 900
for new buildings, 81 900 :or rebuilding shops
$4,000 for fire-proof stairways and sanitary
towers for the Relief and Dawes buildings,
and 81, 500 for laboratory extension.
The suggestion is made that employment
be provided for the inmates, and the new farm,
"Godding Croft" is cited as place where
the experiment might be tried.
CONDITION OF FREEDMAN's HOSPITAL.
The annual report of Freedmans Hospital
was rendered yesterday.
On account of the illness of his chief, DR..
Francis, executive officer, makes the report
and says upon taking charge he found affairs
Of the institution in good condition and COM
pliments the late management.
''The coored people" he adds, "are sadly
in need OF both the skilled physician and the
careful, trained nurse. These should come
from among their own people [ believe
therefore. that Congress should be urged to
be liberal in appropriating for the institution.
81 regret to note that there is a disposition
to have the hospital saddled upon the District
l question both the wisdom and justice of this
policy. The hospital has been from the be-
ginning and still is national institution 1t
should be so continued. 1t is not Just to the
people of the District to ask them to pay one
half of the expense, as patients are received
.here from all parts of the country, and large
percentage of the inmates are of the soldier
element
II believe pay ward should be permitted
and its development encouraged. Many are
too proud to accept gratuitous treatment who
could pay a small fee. yet who are too poor
to have home treatment.
BUILDINGS SHOULD BE CONNECTED.
DR.. Francis also calls attention to the fact
that none of the buildings of the hospital are
connected, and patients who have to be car
ried from any of the eight wards to the ad-
ministration building for operations or ex-
aminations must be carried on stretchers
through the open grounds in all kinds of
weather. The same condition exists in rela-
ton to the eight wards and the dlning-room
Convalescing patients must pass TO and from
the dining-room through the grounds, and
meals to the sick are delivered in the same
way. He recommends that two boilers on
the grounds be utilized for heating the hos
pital with steam, and that the frame struc-
lures be replaced with modern brick wards
The whole number of patients admitted and
treated in the hospital during the year was
3,00S, an increase of 3S2 over the previous
year. In the dispensary 5,693 patients were
prescribed for.
Forty nurses are asked for DR.. Williams,
who was before the Commissioners person.
ally, said that training school is necessary
to fit colored women as nurses. Skilled
nurses of the colored race are in demand all
over the country. This is the only place ex-
cept Chicago where colored women are edu.
Gated as nurses. Five dollars per month for
each nurse is asked for in addition to board
and lodging. A number of candidates for ad-
r11ic thnrc -hO hot, Eon, -,