The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-26
MOVEMENT OF PATIENTS.

The permanent increase is thus only
13, as against 10 of the previous year,
and IL the average for five years. The
cured equal 80 per cent of the admitted
or per cent more than the average
during five years. OF the % deaths
eight cases died a month after they
were admitted of diseases with which
they were suffering at the time of ad-
mission. The doctor recommends that
in future moribund patents be refused
The average daily cost per patient
has been 3619 cents. This remarkably
low figure is attributed to the follow
ing factors: 1. A unity of manage
ment which has materially increased
the farm and dairy products and de-
creased expenses everywhere. g. Care
full purchasing of supplies 8. The use
of slack coal. T. Economy in the heat
ing arrangement 5. Extra work by
employees in repairing, etc. g. The
practical application of the axiom:
Success depends upon knowing what it
costs to succeed"
The physical health of the patients
has been excellent, which fact is ac-
counted for by the following factors: 1.
No contagious of communicable disease
has been permitted to enter the asv-
lum. 2. The diet, though economical.
has been healthful and palatable. g
Uniformity has been maintained in
light, heat, cleanliness and ventilation.
I. Higher requirements, especially in
the matter of individual attention to
patients have been made of attend
ants. 5. The educational elements. es-
pecially in the matter of habit form
ing on the part of patients, has been
made part of the daily discipline. g..
Eighty per cent of the patients have
been employed; a few profitably. many
nj Ia
good of the exercise. 7. The maxims:
attendants must attend and PA
tents must be classified" have been
strictly enforced.
FACTS ABOUT Maintenance.
Two hundred and thirty arc LIGHTS
are used on an average of two hours
daily, and at cost of 515 mills per
lamp; $50 tons of hay, 80 tons of roots
ana 100 bushels of potatoes We're
raised. The garden supplied every form
of vegetables needed during the season
and the orchard supplied all the fruit
necessary, and zoo quarts for canning:
$3.50 worth Of products were sold.
Various improvements are noted in
the grounds, kitchen, airing court. laun-
dry, furniture hillside pasture. barns
piggeIy, bathing facilities and ceme
terry; the building has been cleaned
1AO4l1 SdIIel 10 cellar. emergency rooms
have been fitted UP, ETC., most of which
has been done at little or no monetary
cost to the institution
The report closes by recommending
the construction of an elevator, the
purchase of a piano. the providing of a
storage battery for the barn, the ex
tension Of the library, better fire es-
capes from wards G and H. and the
refusal of admission to moribund pa
dents and also to the convict insane.
The latter, it is claimed, become dan
gerous in proportion az they regain
their senses, end should be cared for
by penal institutions
Ere we reached Provo on the return
trip we looked back and the blazing
windows, row upon row, sugg st one
of those feudal castles of the middle
ages. Suddenly the lights go out.
Blessed sleep has come to the unfor-
Inmates, and spirits that wander aim
lessly in earth life are perhaps now
living true life in some other world
N. L. N
Provo City, Dec. "a. 1897.