The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1900-03-29
APPEAL ISSUED.
se0s Board Of Charities Calls UpSu
The People 70 Hip III. Insans.

saturday the STATE board OF ChnF!-
&ies issued an appeal TO the people ..
North Carolina in ben ah OF the insane
who are withoJ. hospital care in this
state II Is a pamphlet o; % pages
Toe board under sense q: advisory
responsibility imposed by ne consti-
tuition and statues thereUE ie-. lass be-
fore the people the necessity of meas
ures for the care o. the insane in ad-
0.tion TO the priyision now made by
the State Hospital at Raleigh. Nor
canton and Goldsboro. Tna facts 10
which public attention Is thus directed
have been definitely ascertai1ed and
carefully considered. In the Morganton
HOSPITAL there were at the last report
Is3 patiercs: the wOmans department
full; IA applications up 10 Ju2e Isl,
and only - could ne admitted. By Sep
tsmber the rejected ncI.oer log. There
are AS patients in the GoldSboro Hos
pital. II is overcrowded. 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 al least 500 insane are
now uncared for in the western dis.
trict, 800 OF whom should be in the
Hospital
The board of charities has made
careful inquiries TO ascertain the num-
Der CT insane, white and colored. in
eadh county home OF Jail or in private
care, also as to epileptics CT idiots who
arc public charges 10y reason OF their
dangerous character or want OF support
at home.
A frightful showing is made; 10
white and 56 colored insane in county
homes; also GA white and 33 colored
epileptics, 80 white and 81 colored idi-
OTIS, while in jails there are II white
and 8 negro insane, 10 white and one
negro epileptics, two white and four
negro idiots, and in private care 1iS
| white and 4S negro insane, A white
| and s negro epileptics. AZ white and l8
negro idiots; toal mentally insane 527
white, 239 colored. grand total 766.
| The board says the number repOrte,.
| 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.
| The board urges the building OF in
| expensive cottages at the asylums for
'tcolor'.es' OF insane. in mile or two
of the present institutions.
| The cost of the Raleigh and Morgan
ton Hospitals is about $500 a bed and
of the Goldsiboro Hospital about the
same. The average throughout The
United States is about $1,000 4 bed
The cottages Cn the colony plan a
| Morganton cost but 5000 bed. and Il
the brick made by the management 40(
can be furnished with beds at cost u
5000 to $3.50 each.
The board says: We do. not dwell
upon the possibility OF being subjected
to the lash of a brutal jailor for un
conscious offence or of penning UP ant
feeding like q wild beast as a so-calleC
home, instances OF which were laid be
fore us. Humanity shudders at the re
flect.on that such things exist in thi
State. But the people are entitled y
know the whole truth. The darkes
element is contained In the fact that o
208 single women in the Inorganic,
Hospital u were debauched and man,
of these had illegitimate children
Some Of these were respectable befor
becoming victims"
{ TIE board urges enlargement a
Goldsboro; the addition OF lands for
cottage system at Raleigh. The boar
=, calls on the Governor State and judi
cial officers, county boards of-visitor.
legislators, county officials ard IN
| nros,s and nm ayorv psor1 cifizap IN nj
these unfortunate insane.