The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-10-12
INTERPRETATIONS NEEDED.


After the usual proportlonately increased
appropriation for salaries and maintenance
to comport with the Increased population, !
consider Of first Importance an appropriation
to buy more farming land, 800 acres at
least, and for this purpose $4,000 is the
amount that in my Judgment should be ap-
propriated.
Having been thoroughly convinced early
in nv asylum experience TINT employment
was of the first Importance In the treatment
of the insane, and observing the vast pes
sibilties in the way Of reducing expenses
by utilizing the labor Of patients haNe
made II NV constant enort TO 40 every
thing possible So the way OF establishing
new Industries and enlarglng the means OK
employment. IN this, however, nave peen
badly Handicapped In many ways, prlh-
ciDailv from the lack Of appropriation 70
bIiv farm land and equipments for several
Industries, and by not having a suineieni
number Of skilled employees 70 ulletv anu
lead in the work where skilled Work Is re-
ouirod Instead Of the small farm we NOW
have iouly about 200 acres OF cultivataole
laud) We should have at least 4V'9 sciessi
which could be operated With but little, II
any, additional expense. s,.,, .,,,
Although q great deal Of additional room
has heep provided here during the past four
yeare still it Is @ fact that cohlrohtis "
That before January next every aNaila9ls
he'd Will have been occupied anu ts "
other two institutions have been practlSatly
without room for the past year, y VIII pc
necessary to provide for nt least ~ more
patients to meet the demand for anotner
two or four years And ia TINS conuet'i,n
] deem it proper TO say tnal ny ~
timing The character or patients 70 pc AZ
mltted into an insane asylum sn0ull pg ~
means be changed and more limitation put
upon the kind OF mentally defective pelso"a
entitled 10 admission - len
nj. ssafsf Ia rr q
OUT respect to age, color or previous coA9i
lions resident or nonresident, can "a
clared insane and 50 long US we nave l9uul,,
there is nothing % iustuE rue lelusa, a.
their admission People who are extremely
oid feeble and, as might be expected, nave
bit little mind. are frequently declared ~
sane and put IN the asyluins. nue. eN
free to admit that such cases are troup 8
come to relatives and friends, and when
they happen to have neither relatlEes u9l
friends 10 the county officials, SIM II Is
nlnln that they do not properly belong %
me trnly insane class and. therefore shouiu
NOT be restrained with them.
Nhno we have no separate Institution iof
idtots and imbeclles it requires 70 arHn
mont 10 show that this most pnioftuptts
and troublesome class should MOI become lt
mates Of an Insane asylum, YET When tAels
h room we are forced TO take them IN con
IN a1on the Judgment and hnmani.
tartan principles % the ncxt legislature, /
have every reason 10 hope and believe tnal
+bte elase 81 long neglected unfortunates
viii be provided for 9y me esiapnsn'ii N.
treatment $780,. =, ,he
,frterani persons who compose the ponula.
ZION 81 our hospitals iof the lnsehe Mel,
Sisc.nse fhe fact thst many ot them arc w,
entitied oven to citizenship IN the United
sfstes ABA many more are nonresidepfs 81
tie State. H.. -. o,.ohol
peoDle addicted % drug ana ne eigon ~
corn ii Heing and GET 10 be oalectionaole 20
RELATIVES friends aud the community sen