The San Francisco call., 1898-12-16
EPARAT|NC
 FEEBLE-M|NDED
 FROM INSANE Secretary Carrere Su- perintends Transfer. BROUGHT FROM THE ASYLUMS TAKEN TO THE ELDRIDGE HOME NEAR GLEN ELLEN. Unusual Scene at the Tiburon Ferry When Two Sheriff's Vap>
 Drive Up Filled With
 Unfortunates.
BROUGHT FROM THE ASYLUMS
TAKEN TO THE ELDRIDGE HOME
 NEAR GLEN ELLEN.

scene enacted at the Tiburon ferry at o'clock yesterday afternoon created considerable excitement in that vicinity Two Sheriff's vans drove up at that time, both filled with Predetermined people that have been gathered from the various in sane asylums in the State. Secretary John F. Carrere of the State Board of Lunacy Commissioners has been rounding up the idiots, and the first consignment was sent to the Home for Feeble Minded at Eldridge, in Sonoma County. This is In accordance with an order recently is sued by the commission
 The patients must be sent to the county from which they were first committed to the insane asylum for recommitment to the Predetermined home Secretary Car rere started with San Francisco, which Furnishes the most patients, on account or its size, and as a result Ukiah asylum furnished one male and two females, Az news two males and two females, Napa four males and one female and Stockton three males, making a total of fifteen committed from this county. They were placed in the insane ward of the Receiv- ing Hospital and taken before the h. sanity Commissioners yesterday morning. Drs Lustig and Rothers were kept busy examining them, and Judge Carroll Cook committed them to the home near Glen Ellen.
 In the party were also three from Ala
 
 San Joaquin. They were perfectly harm less and tractable. The women were at tended by seven lady attendants. Sheriff Whelan wisely delegated Under Sheriff William Clack to take charge of the transfer. which was accomplished without any untoward incident. Eight deputies accompanied them, and handled their in- sane wards with great consideration. Sec retary Carrere was a very busy man at the departure of the 5:10 o'clock boat, being anxious to have the proceedings go off without a hitch.
 This transfer" he said, will relieve the pressure on the aSylums where the most dangerous people are kept. It is the nrst time such course has ever been taken, and 1t Is a wise precaution. There is great difference between the treat ment for the feeble-minded and that for the insane. Now that home has been provided for the poor unfortunates 1t is proper that they should be taken there. pr. A. E. Osborne, superintendent of the and thoroughly understands the treat ment of feeble minds. While I do not think that they can be cured, still 1t Is but Just that they should be in a separate institution.
 '1 will proceed to gather them from the other counties. and I anticipate that the next Legislature will make an appropria- non Tor the enlargement of the premises them all. The railroad people have very kindly provided a special car, and so the | poor beings will be to themselves on the | trip. There are three boys In this lot, one l of whom has been in the Stockton asylum | Tor five years. Some were insane when | first committed, but have now become | idiots and are unable to help themselves l 1t being. necessary to feed them. One | for thirty-two years, and her condition | Is pitiable. It will be some days before | all the feebleminded are removed from the interior asylums, but the work will be nrpJy 1Tf tod l.r