Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-15
INCREASE THEIR ESTIMATES
superintendents of State Charities Ask for
More Money
REPORTS ON THE SEVERAL INSTITUTIONS
HASTINGS Asylum Too Small to Accom-
m0dptc the tncurni,Ic InsUnC-Niil-
ford Soldiers Home UunS
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/ LINCOLN, Dec 1l.--(Sreclal)-On file
! with the commissioner Of public lands and
buildings are the reports Of superintendent
Dlmrell OF the Asylum for Chronic Insane,
Hastings; Superintendent Abbott OF the Lin
coin Hospital for the Insane; Warden
Lcidighs report Of the state penitentiary,
biennial report of the board of trustees OF
the Woman's Associated Charities seventh
biennial r,rcrt of the Home for the Friend
less and the fourth annual report of the
superintendent of the Nebraska Industrial
Homo at Milford.
In prefacing his report. DR.. Damrell of the
Hastings asylum says: There has been
change Of all the resident cfRccrs during the
first year of this biennial period on the
2Sth of March, 1895, ! was appointed super
intendent by his excellency, Governor Slas
4. Iiolcomb. to succeed DR.. George w. John
con, resigned, and took charge April 10 fol-
lowing. April 10 Hon. a. j. Scott was ap-
pointed steward to succeed w. NJ.
Cline, resigned, and assumed his du-
ties April 20. May "a, 1895, Miss
Jennie Il. Larsen was appointed
matron to succeed Mrs. C. A. McDougau. re-
signed, and assumed her duties June /. DR..
j, 7. Steele was appointed assistant physi-
clan on the 1st day of August, 1885, to sue
oeed DR.. w. b. Kern, resigned and assumed
his duties August TO-
There remained in this hospital at the
end of the third biennial period 437 inmates,
pa males and 2O3 females. There were re-
ceived during this period seventy-nine male
and 100 fen ale patients. Total number re-
ceiyed, lI9. There were seven discharged
cured, one returned to Lincoln asylum, two
taken away by friends and seventy-ninc
deaths leaving at the end of this biennial
period, November 30 1896, 537 patients in
the asylum"
Tho superintendent calls attention to the
fact that the normal capacity of the institu-
tiJn Is but i5O patients while at the present
time there are 537, about one-nfth more than
can be properly cared for. There are pend
ing requests from the Lincoln and Norfolk
asyiums to receive still more patients at
Hastings in order to relieve the over crowded
condition of these hospitals. He trusts that
the next legislature will do something to
modify this over-crowded condition. He sug-
Eests that detached buildings be erected on
either side OF the present building with
capacity of l5O to 200 patients each. such
building, four stories high including base
ment, he estimates could be erected .Or
100000. superintendent Damrel's estimates
for the coming two years and five months are
as follows
Employees wages ...................... 500
Fuel and lights. s......:................... 26lCO
Furniture and bedding............... 3IOO
Drugs, books and instrumcnts....... 2j5O
rants ana oilS.,,.......,............ 2lI5
Music and ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. $50
Stationery, postage and prnting.... l45O
Telephone and telegraph. 53j
Freight, express and drayage........ gG5
B,pp Repnirs ana improvements............ 15I86
buIlhl expenses Observation-Disclosures. $50
Transferring patients ................. 300
Incidental expenses .................... 2l15
Superlntendents salary .............. COL
Assistant physicians salary......... 3,G2j
Total ......................... soIa 5Gf
Special appropriations: '''
Two detached buildings .......,.,...S 60 GOO
Coid storage NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 5000
99tSI 9ors,,oP P4e 5000
Two lOO-horse power boilers, set
loi USE OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. l,610 |
Total ............................. 1860
The total appropriation for the Hastings
asylum two years ago was S135, 500. The |
stewards report shows that from the appro- |
prlatlon Tor general uses of S28, ,4GS lS there |
had been expended to August 81, 1896. S2S,- |
1902, leaving a balance of $l3OG
LINCOLN HOSPITAL.
In his biennial report Dr. L.. J. Abbott Of |
the Hospital for the Insane, Lincoln, says !
that at the commencement of the biennial |
period there were present in the hospital 3il |
patients, 119 males and 1G2 females. Ad- |
mtted during the period, 4S2; males. 2So; |
females, 2O2, making total of S23 patients |
under tre,tment for the two years During |
the past two years many improvements and .
additions have been made The basement |
ward on male 5lde has been plastered door
ways completed, baseboardS put down and !
the entire ward painted, water closet and bath
rooms retitted and cement floor laid Floors
in six of the wards have been laid the entire
boiler plant reset and two dynamUs, with new
wire attachments, retitted Two new pumps
were supplied and Cne cid well repaired. A
proplgGting house for conservatory and vege-
table garden has been built and piped for hot
and cold water. The cost for repairs on the
conservatory, which was destroyed by the
wind storm of last summer and other i'm
prOvements mentioned was S647712. In his
estimates for appropriations for the period
ending August 81, 1899, Or. Abbott asks for !
Sli5OOO which is yearly estimated per
capita coat of $l71.45. In his special estimate
no asks for the following:
Ice house and cold storage..........S 1000
Repairs and new fittings for steam
heating plant Observation-Disclosures. 500
Repairing electric light plant and
new new dynamo no., 1000
Moving ana rebuilding old barn...... 1,50o
Repairing porch NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 500
Repairs and laundry machinery. Zoo
Workshop and resident quarters...... 5000
shop ana co9yaiescen!s,;t ;t;;..,,..,,; ".'N 1000
steam fitting for new building and
wire posts and fencing boards,,' S9l S3}
Total for permanent improve
menls OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. lG 500
The total appropriation for the Lincoln
hospital for the biennium ending March
3D. 1897, was 300, expended as follows
% November 80, 1896;
employees wages ....................S 22,3TOi 40
8oard and clothing. 81 77i5ig
'uel and lights. ts....,.........,......... 75Sl5O
furniture and bedding ............. 97l-l |
Drugs, books and Instruments. 1,3jl04 |
returning patients .................. 1851
Nmusemcnts OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 1866
ANTS ana Observation-Disclosures. 4nG0J | ;
stationery and postage. 500OO | ,
telephone and telegraph. 207Si
freight and XpresS................. 2i743 |
steam pipe oVerng................ 4SS27
icneral repairs Observation-Disclosures. 2S3gG7
salaries of superintendent and as
sistants .........,................... 10000
'alanCe uncXpended ......-........ 2O,44313
Total ..........................,.. 500 90
MILFORD SOLDIERS HOME.
In his report to the Board of Public /
lands and Buildings, Commandant Culver {
II the Milford Soldiers and Sailors Home /
ccounts for the expenditure of the IS 900 |
appropriated by the last legislature as fol