The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-11-30
INCREASED NUMBER
OF INSANE PATIENTS
GOVERNMENT ASYLUM REPORT.
Estimates Of Expenses fer the Next
Fiscal Year-Extensive Improve
Iaents to the Grounds and
Buildings Planned.

The forty-sixth annual report OF the
Government Hospital for the Insane was
submitted to the Secretary Of the Interior
today. The general results of the work
of the hospital up TO October ], 1901, are
epitomized by the board of visitors as fol-
lows:
The number of patients remaining in
hospital at the close of the year is just
100 greater than were present at the close
of the year previous The admissions for
the year number 655. which is consid-
erabIy larger number than have been ad-
mitted in any previous year As
compared with preceding years the pro
portion of those remaining who were re-
ceived from the Army, Navy, and Marine
Hospital Service, is slightly reduced from
1914 per cent 20 46 per cent.
THE percentage OF recoyeries was 42S4
OF the total discharges and deaths. This
is higher than for any year of the past
decade, the highest percentage during
that period being S6.56 for the year 1888
So This increase is doubtless in large
part to be attributed to the larger num-
Der of admissions of young men in whom
the disease existed in more favorable
form The deaths were 1923 per cent Of
the average number resident during the
year. This is slightly above the average
for the past ten years, this being 1914
per cent
Statistics as 20 CoIOred Persons.
The proportion Of colored has slight
/ ~ increased from 1S.6 per cent at the be
/ ginning of the year to 1884 per cent at
! the close The proportion of women has
also slightly increased from q per cent
to 2S.75 per cent of the whole popuIa-
4 ton"
The death of The president Of the board
/ Of visitors, the Rev Byron Sunderland,
! D. D., whose death occurred during the
! current year. is referred 10 in feeling
/ terms by the surviving members, who are
! F NJ Gunnell VI. D., L. s. n; Mrs. a
! NJ GauguregeT. John Moore, NJ. D, Z. s.
/ A; Mrs. Mary E. Fuller, Walter Wyman,
/ VI. D.; William y. Johnston, NJ D.; Hon.
/ William 4 Mau-y- ard SamE;eI II Kauff-
mann
A b Richardson NJ D.. superintendent
! of the hospital appends to the report Of
/ the board OF visitors a list giving The de-
( tailed expenditures for the fiscal year
/ The greater part OF Dr. Richardson's re
port was Incorporated in the annual re-
/ port Of the Secretary Of the Interior.
Estimates of Expenses.
For the support. maintenance. clothing,
and treatment of the insane from the
army and navy. Marine Corps. revenue
cutter service, inmates Of the National
/ Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.
/ persons charged with or convicted OF
! crimes against the United states; and all
! persons who have become insane since
their entry into the military and naval
/ service of The United States who have
/ been admitted to the hospital and who
are INDECENT. and for the INDECENT insane
admitted from the District Of Columbia
+ for the fiscal years Of 1SG1-ISG2, an GppFo-
+ priation of $495.000 asked Of Congress.
The sum OF $232,509 is asked for i'm
proyements 70 the buildings and grounds.
! I W Blackburn. VI. D. Pathologist in
+! his report On the work Of the pathological
I department. says:
In accordance with the wishes Of the
superintendent the pathological work has
/ been directed more than heretofore TO the
Investigation Of disease by elinieo-patho-
logical methods. With this in view, the
I laboratory has been equipped with COM
pIete apparatus and an able assistant. DR..
/ C DeWeese late OF the Maryland Hos
pital for the Insane. has been placed IN
charge of this work
Valuable Work Done.
Although our equipment has not long
been complete. much valuable work in
this line has been done. One hundred and
efghty-four blood examinations for the
malariaI parasite have been made. with
positive result in 1G7. Work has also
been done in stomach analysis, Widars
reaction in typhoid. and in special clinical
work as required. Reports of these ex-
aminations are fled with the case records
and copies are kept for reference in the
! laboratory.
The branch OF moTtid anatomy and
/ pathological histology has received a new
/ impetus by the purchase Of more complete
/ equipment for this work This branch of
the work has also been brought into clos
| CT relation to the clinical study of disease
/ by the synopses Of the clinical histories
! required to be sent with every case for
/ Ost-mcrtem examination and by the ia
J ciIities offered to the pathologist for
study of the cases clinicalIy- Autopsies
/ are now required in every case when per-
Missile, ard synOpses of the post-mor-
! TEN records are a. once sent 10 the at
/ tending physicians for preservation with
/ the case records. During the year ended
June SO 1901 109 post-morteTn exami-
| nations were made