Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-11-29
Discussed in the Report Of the Sec
rotary Of the Interior.
HOSPITALS UNDER GOVERNMENT CARE
St. EIizabeth's Affected by the I'D
joining River Flats.
WARD ERSITY

Several matters of local interest are
treated in the annual report of the Secre-
tary of the Interior, made public today.
Referring to the Government Hospital for
the Insane. the report says:
This hospital was established by act of
March 3, 1866. 1t is managed by a board
of visitors nine citizens of the District of
Columbia), appointed by the President ami
is supported by congressional appropria-
ton, the expenditure of which is under the
supervision of the Secretary of the Interior.
The institution has an area of $50 acres of
land, known. as ST. Elizabeth, from the
title of the original grant; also outlying
agricultural lands of upward of $50 acres.
The fourteen hospital buildings can COM
fortably accommodate about ! 400 patients.
The estimated cost of the entire property,
of which the title is in the United States,
is something over S1,OO0,OOO. This is the
only United States hospital for the insane.
1t provides fer the insane of the army and
navy, marine corps, revenue cutter service,
National Home for Disabled Volunteer Sol
diers, the INDECENT insane of the District OF
Columbia, and insane United States con-
victs ana criminals. Under the law, in
sane inmates of the Soldiers, Home al
Washington, d. c., and the insane of the
marine hospital service are cared for in
this institution.
1.-The annual report of the board of visit
ors shows that during the year 2.O52 per-
sons have been under treatment, $50 have
died or have been discharged: Loo re-
manned in the hospital on the Both of June,
1885. The number of admissions, 3I1, an
average of more than one a day, is an
cess nver that of any year since the war,
while the number under treatment during
the year 2,O52, exceeds that of any pre-
viouS year. and the daily avera ge is nearly
fifty more than ever before. The mortality
of the year, 179 deaths, is 1913 per cent of
the average number and s.72 per cent of
the whole number under treatment Ninety
three of the deaths were of soldiers and
sailors. Attention is directed to the great
increase of sickness in the hospital during
the past season, due largely to the insa-
lubrity of the adjoining river flats, conse-
quent upon suspension of the work of fill
ing them during the past two years. The
superintendent recommends that the atten-
ton of Congress be called to this very ini-
portant matter. The report contains n
somewhat detailed and interesting state
Tnent of the buildings provided for the in
sane, the classification and arrangement
thereof together with outlined plans show
occupied by said buildings and devoted TO
the employment and recreation of the
classes for whom the provision was made.
THE estimate for current expenses is
S36S, GOO and is based on an annual cost of
5000 per capita for an estimated average
number of 1878 persons. Appropriations
of $4,000 for general repairs and improve
ments, $1,000 for rebuilding carpenter and
machine shop, S1,50O for laboratory eX-
tension to the pathological department,
$500 for heating apparatus fer the new
building now near completion, S6uO Tor
electric fans for the hospital wards and
resistance coils for the dining rooms, s., 400
for renewing and fire PROBING floors in two
wards of the main building, and $2.DO for
the erection of a kitchen and dining room
for the harmless insane -domiciled at the
new farm are also solicited. The reasons
for these expenditures, (which appear to be
conclusive. are fully set forth In the re-
port, and are commended to the favorable
consideration of Congress- .-'..'- 80
For the Deaf Mutcs.
Describing the Columbia Institution for
the Deaf and Dumb, he says:
This institution was established by act
of February 16, 1857. 1t is managed 10y
board of directors CT which Congress is
represented by one Senator and two Rep
resentatives, and is supported in Fart by
congressional appropriations and in part
by tuition fees. The expenditure OF con-
gressional appropriations is under the
supervision Of the Secretary Of the Interior,
ard admissions Of all beneficiaries are sub
ject to his approval. The report of the
president, DR.. E. NJ. Gallaudc.. shows the
year to have been prosperous. with a stead
lily increasing number of pupils. Their" have
been, since July 1, 1894. 1O1 in the college
department. repre- sehting twenty-eight
states, the District of Columbia and
Canada. There have been fifty-eight pupils
L.
events of the year are the completion of
a separate dormitory for the boys of the
primary department and of an addition to
the laboratory in which technical instruc-
tion will be carried en-.
These improvements have been COM
pleted with an appropriation of $4,000
made by the last Congress. The following
estimates for the fiscal year ending June
80, 1897. have already been submit ted: For
the support of the institution including
salaries and incidental expenses. for Looks
and illustrative apparatus, and for general
repairs and improvements. sd5Do. For
special repairs to tho buildings of the in
stitution and for the furnishing of the
rev buildings, the erection Of which was
provided for by act of Congress approved
March 2, 1895, 5000.
Howard Univcrsity.
Howard University was established by
the act of March q 1867, for the education
of youth in the liberal arts and sciences
1t is managed by board of trustees, on
which Congress is represented by one Sena-
tor and two Representatives. 1t is sup
ported in part by funds from benevolent
societies and in part from appropriations
by Congress. The president, Rev j. F.
Rankin, D. D., reports the work of How
ard University as united and prosperous
Five hundred AMI eiShty-iiye students
n: ale and female, have been in attendance
They come from fortytwo different states
anu territories, from the w est Indies and
Central America. OF these students 700
are in the medical, 33 in the legal and 81
in the theological departments; 3S are in
the collegiate department. 92 In the pre-
paratory. 1SS in she normal. All in the
lower classes are taught manual labor, as
follows: In the printing office. in the car
penter's shop the timers. the bcokbind-
ers and in the sewing class.
mo tuition is required. except in the
medical department: room rent is SIS a
year and board IS a month. The Andrew
Rankin Memorial Chapel has been complet-
ed. though $1,000 is needed to fit up a spa
cious room therein for library purposes
The trustees are expanding from $500 to
$4,000 to improve the hospital building
row rented in part by the government 4
nurses training class has bean in success
full operation, for which especial facil-
tiles have, with the approval of the de-
partment, been furnished by Dr. d. H,
Williams, surgeon in charge of the Freed
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