The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-10-26
Few People 60 Crazy From Dis
appointment In Love.
III Health Leads According to
Official Report.
DIR. UHLS EXPLAINS IT.
Leavenworth Furnished Great
est Number at OsawatOmie.
Superintendent Wants Many I'm
provements Made.

Why do people go crazy? That question
is answered by the report of the superin =
tendent of the Osawatomie asylum
Contrary to the prevailing belief very
few people become insane from disap-
pointment in love.
III health leads with the greatest per-
centage, while heredity is a close second
Next comes intemperance. The lowest of
all is disappointment of love, while next
above is cigarettes.
The property of the state insane asylum
at Osawatomie is valued at $650O0o. The
institution contains 1.027 patients; sol
males and 526 females. There were dur
ing the past two years 236 deaths; 9S were
discharged restored the percentage of
those restored under treatment at the
asylum, during the last year being "a
Since the asylum at Osawatomie has
been established 4 939 patients have been
admitted. Death has come to 1902 and
1856 have been discharged as cured.
of / 200 people at the institution and the
biennial report filed with the governor
contains this statement by the superin-
tendent:
A comparison will show that no town of
200 people in the state has 50 few people
The general health is good.
Numerous improvements have been
made al Osawatomie during the past two
years. Roads and walks have been i'm
proved; new steam pumps, filters, water
T. 900 black bass have been. put in the
ponds on the farm and other property i'm
The superintendent of the asylum wants
the state to bore for gas to supply the
institution: he asks for a cold storage
plant. more land, canning factory, for
which the following appropriations are
recommended:
To bore for gas .......................S2 900
For ice and cold storage plant...... 5000
To purchase additional lands-....... 10000
LOT canning factory 49,. .....-...---.- o'oVS
Finishing basement ward.............. 1000
Standp pc for Waterworks system. 300
10 complete detached hospital build -
This makes a total Of $5s loo. which the
INSTITUTION viii ask for through the board
of charities at the next session of the leg
L. l. Uhls. the superintendent. does not
forget to suggest that the salaries of sup
erintendents of asylums should be raised
and calls attention to the fact that the
superintendent of a similar institution in
an adjoining state receives. exactly, per
annum, the amount representing the COM
bined salaries of the two Kansas super
intendents.
Since the Osawatornie asylum was es-
tablished 40 inmates have escaped and
were dropped from the records. Forty
four were found to be not insane and were
restored to their families. These cases
were generally ones of persecution in
which disagreeable relations were dis
Causes Of insanity as reported by the
asylum authorities are as follows:
disappointment in love ................... 9
Cigarettes ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
Family troubles ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. IS
I1efeqlty AZ
- II
4nteInpeFance -
Religious excitement ...................... i6
Illinois and. Indiana have furnished the
greatest number of patients for this asy-
lum. The nativity OF the patients is:
3anleilcaI porn -.-....--..-....--...-.-.- Sy7
The counties of the state which have
furnished more than 100 patients for this
Leavenworth ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 222
Anderson ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 1913
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