Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-10-08
CONSUMPTION OF QUININE
At st. Elixnbeth's and the Condition
of the Eastern Branch.

The annual report of the board Of visitors
to the Government Hospital for the Insane,
signed by Dr. J. NJ. Toner. president, to-
gether with a summary of the expenditures
for the year, by DIR. w. W. Godding. the
superintendent, has been received by the
Secretary of the Interior.
A tabular statement is given of the ad-
missions, discharges deaths, percentages,
etc. for each year from the opening of the
hospital I'm 1870. 1t states that the number
of admissions, 36l. or nearly one day, is
in excess over any yea: since The war,
while the whole number under treatment
during the year 1S!'l exceeds that OF any
other year in the history of the hospital
The mortality, the report states, was
LITTLE more than 10 per cent Of the daily
average number under care, and something
less than l-2 per cent of the whole num-
Der under treatment This IS about | per
cent less than that of the previous year, the
report states, and considering the advanced
age or so large proportion of the inmates
and the unhealthy condition of the flats on
the Eastern branch of the Potomac, the
showing Is a favorable one. Tie riiIng OF
the Potomac flats by the United States gov
eminent, especially those of the Eastern
branch. is doubtless a grand hygienic work
for the future of Washington and it's vicini-
ty, but the transition stage, with the slow
rate at which the work Is being prosecuted.
means only an increase of malaria and
death OF the present generation. In the
three years since the mud bars were thrown
up to cut off the Swash channel on the
river front adjoining the hospital grounds
the consumption of quinine among the in
mates has more than doubled, while the
rnaided efforts of nature have made but
slow progress in filling the broad expanse of
nearly Stagnant water that each low tide
changes to mud, that has no salt to SAVIOR
it, and is a constant menace to the health
OF the inmates of St. Elizabeth
The great army of the unemployed that
visited Washington is credited 10y the re-
port with having increased the number of
the inmates. Reference is made to the i'm
pOrtance of finding employment for the in
mates. and the new farm. "Godding Croft"
is spoken of plan where suitable oc-
cupation is afforded. There were 1920 pa
tients in the hospital on June 80 IS.L3 of
which number 1,2B We're males and 374
were females. Three hundred and sixty
one We're admitted during the year. of
which 2I3 were males and ~ were females.
during the year To- were discharged
covered, e. as improved, q unimproved and
16I died. There were in the hospital on the
30th of June last 1.GS1 patients. The latter
are classified as follows: Army-White, 7oS;
colored, 10. Navy-White. &c; coloreJ, |.
Marine hospital service-White Il: colored
3. Civil life-White. 3lS: colored 13S. Those
from civil life comprise the following: Dis
trict of Columbia transient, 81: District of
Columbia resident INDECENT. 6J6; United
states convicts and criminals. So, and four
private patients.
For current expenses the sum Of S363 600
is asked; $lG0O is desired for general re-
pairs end improvements: $4,000 for new
buildings; 5000 for rebuilding shops; 50 900
for fire-prOof stairways and sanitary
towers for the relief and Dawes buildings
and S1.Jn for laboratory extension.
Appended to the report is a paper on "a
study of ten intra-cranial tumors," by DR.
l. w. Blackburn special pathOlogist.