Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1901-02-07

Ire fitted with neavy wire netting.
This is kept closed except at meal
lines when the food is passed through
from the kitchen.
Outbuildings - Carpenters shop,
servants quarters, stables, wash
house and POI house.
The force Of attendants employed at
the Asylum number nineteen persons
of two captains, twelve
guards, one matron and four female
nurses. The force is divided into two
of eight hours each. Two
guards are stationed at Ward No. 1.
One guard at Ward No. 2. Two guards
at Ward No. 3. One matron and two
nurses at Ward No. 4 The captains
make a round of ali wards before go.
ing on watch. During the night half
hour rounds are required. Ships bells
are struck all through the twenty-four
hours watch.
ed that each ward was thoroughly
disinfected every morning.
All patients with the exception Of
those confined to Wards and G dine
upon the lawns in front of their re.
spective wards. In case of rainy
weather they dine on the verandas.
Breakfast usually consists Of beef
stew, rice, coffee. soft bread, crack
ers anu poi. served at $3.50 a. m.
Dinner-1l:30 a. m.-Soups, toma-
to, vermecelli. vegetable and maca
times a week boiled mutton, once a
week fresh fish, Sundays pork and
. ans.
Supper-i:3O p. m.-Beef prepared
in various ways, meat Ualls, etc, sof,
bread, bananas, tea
In cases OF sickness, beef.tea, tapio
ca, sage. corn starch, eggs and milk
poi and milk, egg.nogs, etc. Private
patients get their meals directly from
the assistant superintendent house
and are charged at the rate Of 80 cents
per diem.
It was also stated that the re
stTaints to which the patients were
sometimes subjected, were humane
Irons are used only in extreme cases
and then leather wristlet is put or
first to avoid chatting the skin. Gloves
are sometimes resorted to as pre-
ventive against patients removing
Eandages. Whenever patient II
placed In restraint n note Is made u
a book kept for the purpose.
4 monthly report of the Inmates ::
made out at the end of each month
giving the number Of inmates in tn,
Asylum at that time, the plumber ad
mitted during the month, the number
discharged. and the number who have
died. with their nationalities, sex
age. asylum number, etc.
A patient upon being admitted Il
the Asylum is Immediately battle;
and clothed in clean clothes, temper
AZURE and pulse taken and the SAM
entered in the records, etc. In add
ton to the regular attendants namet
above there are employed in the Asy
I'm one foreman, one taro man an'
helper, two cooks, two gardeners, on
lcunGryman and one hostler. Tn,
foreman has general supervision {
all the work around the Asylum, sucl
as taro planting and pulling, maxim,
poi, repairs to buildings and fences
digging graves for deceased patients
etc. The taro man is under the fore
! man anu III 'llNNl 'hul VI WV ~
| tients who do any work. He has
man 10 help him in this work. TIL
/ two cooks are employed to cook TO
| the patients and the working force
/ The two gardeners are employed i
/ keeping the grounds in order, plant
/ ing flowers. cutting grass, etc. TIL
/ lGUrdryman keeps all the bed liner
bed spreads, etc, in iirst-class cond
ton. The grounds need to be see
/ to be appreciated; plenty Of gree
/ lawn adorned with cOiored shrubs en-
/ plants makes 1t one of the most bca'
! tiful gardens of Honolulu.
Each and every one Is treated a
/ though he. or she, was n private pi
tient, and as irresponsible as a chill
would be. Therefore II behooves u
to look for ailments and SUFFERING
and not to wait until tLe patient con
plains. but to observe them, and i
struCt those in attendance to waite
and note every popularity or idiosyl
Grassy, of those under their supervl
ion. A physician, even though res
dent, Cannot be always with each vi
tient. and he has to depend on III
watchfulness and intelligence of u
attendants. Their physical conditio
is observed and each Phase of mentt
disturbance noted.
The Asylum is visited and the p
tients all seen daily by me: occasio
ally by one of my partners, and fr
quently by both Of us. II there Is
case of special interest or difficulty,
invariably call on one of them Il
counsel. In case of emergency the
Is always someone on duty In my :
fee, who is acquainted with II
whereabouts, and telephone messas
has always been Immediately atten
ed to. No case of urgency has ev'
been kept waiting, and when the da
ger of serious illness demanded !
as many as three or four visits ha'
, been paid in one day.
When you consider that fifty.thr'
| of the inmates are incurable and ha'
, been over three years in the Asylu
and forty more, doubtful and pra
tically incurable, (have been in Il
Asylum for over two years., and II
, the most part, showing no ameliora
of symptoms-but in many cases I
naming in status quo or progressing
1t leaves but about thirty who 4
quire very special attendance.
Finally. after considerable expe
ence with the insane, ! believe tn
, you will find In no similar institute
, that the patients have been better ca
! ed for, or better results have been @
=, tanned than in the Oahu Asylum.
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