The Hawaiian gazette., 1896-09-11
FOR THE INSANE.
What a Prominent Physician Says
About Accommodations in Honolulu.
Quiet Hospital What IS Needed for Proper
Trezrmeuf-Preseur Methods DO NOT
Imrruvs Condition of People

\ prominent physician stopped re-
porter Of this paper on the street yes
Jerday and began 70 talk about insane
people and accommodations for the
same in the following language:
i am well aware that money is q
hard thing 10 get nowadays and that
Improvements throughout the city and
islands are not as easily accomplished
IS perhaps some Of our legislators
think. but 10 tell you the truth would
rather see some Of our streets so for
years without repair and some Of our
country roads remain in the brains OF
those who are clamoring for them and
use the money necessary for such
things for the building OF Z kind Of
3 hospital in some place near the city
for people showing The first signs Of
insanity. I viii give you my reasons
for this.
As you know I have had experience
with various forms OF insanity and
should be able 10 know something OF
what I am saying.
What Is done with 2 person IN HO-
nolulu when first suspected Of being
insane2 Is he handled carefully and
taken 70 some quiet place with every
thing about calculated 10 SooIhee Is
he given 70 understand that ne is in
g place where kind hearts and hands
viii minister 10 his wanJs2 You know
that such Is not the case. He is taken
10 the police station with all its aSSo-
eiaUions--aken 10 place where mur-
6srerS and thieves are huddled Jogeth-
er- Are any pains taken 10 conceal
from him the fact that he is in the
police station2 He looks around him
and dnds rough faces looking a him
he Is placed in 3 cell and locked IN
like 2 criminal, an officer Is placed aS 2
guard upon his movements Is ali
this calculated 10 do an insane person
any sooi2 No. g thousand times He
Is simply made worse and any addluon-
al excitement OF the kind al 2 stage
when insanity Is just beginning goes
3 very long way toward bringing or &
stronger degree
But thar Is not The worst Of il,
Teke II Tor granted that after an eN-
animation OF q suspect in The district
court and by the physician. ne Is sent
( 70 the insane asylum. he must needs bs
E thrown together with other insane peO-
pie and. if his case is not : very bad
one might be sci stark starving mad
/ just simply by the associations OF thJ
( place Now. in the name Of common
sense. Is this right when you stop u
think OF IL
Here We viii say. are g IoI OF IN
1 for-unateS. just { little bit of. The!
are easily excited Make them fac,
the abOve circumstances. which by m
way Is happening day after day, ans
i their condition iuprOved2 Manifest
Il not I do not hesitate 10 say that
I believe many 2 poor life has besI
simply ruined by the system in vogu
here Perhaps people generally DO no
think OF these things and ] hope 70
that reason that you viii publish N
remarks Al your earliest convenience
Now then. what Is vantsd2 SimpI
little quiet hospital where peoDI
suspected O. insanity can be taken
9 place free from al oolstrzin-. CON
Portable and like 2 private home. Her
they can remain where the physicia.
II charge ean examine them from dz
10 day and learn al The circumstance
IN their respective cases II there
any cure 10 Be effected i can CIzi1
better results here than in the a-mo: