The free press. (Southern Pines, N.C.) 1898-19??, 1900-03-31
APPEAL ISSUED.
State Board of Charities Calls Upon
the People to Help til. Insane.

Saturday the State board of chart
ties issued an appeal to the people OF
North Carolina in behalf of the insane
who are without hospital care in this
State. 1t is a pamphlet of 20 pages.
The board under sense of advisory
responsibility imposed by the consti-
tuition and statues hereunder, lays be-
fore The people the necessity of meas
ures for the care OF the insane in ad-
dition to the privision now made by
the State Hospital at Raleigh. Nor
ganton and Goldsboro. The facts to
which public attention is thus directed
have been definitely ascertained and
carefully considered. In the Morganton
Hospital there were ait the last report
1888 PATIENTS; the woman's department
full; 144 applications UP to June LIST,
and only ~ could be admitted. BY Sep
tember tine rejected number 1903. There
are AS patients in the Goldsboro Hos
pitad. Tt is overcroMded. There are Az
patients in the Raleigh Hospital. The
additions to the buildings give room.
for 440. The superintendent of the
Western Hospital presents reasons for
believing that at least 500 insane are
nuw uncared for in the western dis
trict, 300 OF whom should be in the
Hospital.
The board of charities has made
careful inquiries to ascertain THE mum.
ber of insane, white and colored, In
each county home of jail on in private
care, also as to epileptics or idiots who
are public charges by reason OF their
dangerous character or want of support
at home.
A frightful showing is made; ITO
white and Sc colored insane in county
homes; also GA white and SO colored
epileptics, SO white and 81 colored idi-
OTIS, while in jails there are II white
and negro insane, 10 white and one
negro epileptics, two white and four
negro idiots, and in private care las
white and 48 negro insane, A white
and negro epileptics, AZ white and 1S
negro idiots; toal mentally insane SGT
white, 239 colored, grand total 766.
The board says the number reporteaA
In private care is very greatly less
than the actual truth. Several large
counties report no insane under pri-
vate charge, although it is known that
there are such cases. 1t is strange that
public officials thus fail to do their du-,
ty making such reports.
4 &I,n haYi1 dfy,cr NT
expensive cottages at the asylums for
''colortes' OF insane. in q mile or two
of the present institutions.
The cost OF the Raleigh and Morgan
ton Hospitals is about 5000 a bed and
of the Goldsboro Hospital about the
same. The average throughout the
United States Is about $1,000 a bed.
The cottages ON the colony PLAN at
Morganton cost but 5000 bed, and II
the brick made 10y THE management 400
can be furnished with beds at cost OF
5000 to $3.50 each.
The board says: 'We do not dwell
upon the possibility of being subjected
to the lash of brutal jailor for url-
conscious offence or of penning up and
IGtuluS LILAC d Wllu UC1OL Ga, a FSS~N0AASN
home, instances of which were laid be-
fore u.s. Humanity shoulders at the re-
Election that such things exist in this
State But the people are entitled to
know the whole truth The darkest
element is contained In the fact that Of
2O8 single women in the Morganton
Hospital II were delbauchel and many
of these had illegitbmate children.
Some CT these were respectable before
becoming victims.
The board urges enlargement at
Goldsboro; the addition OF lands for
cottage system at Raleigh. The board
calls on the Governor State and judi
cial officers, county boards of visitors,
legislators, county officials and the
press and on every good citizen to aid
these unfortunate insane.
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