The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-02-01

Will Soon Celebrate Another Birthday.
Perhaps the Oldest triplets-sll maIes-in
lnls country are Messrs. Abraham, Isaac and
JACOB Price, sons of Mr.. and Mrs. Ephraim
Price, of Hereford, Baltimore county, says the
baltimore Sum- The Messrs. Price will cele-
brate the forty-second anniversary of their
plrth on March 18th. Mr.. Jacob Price, one of
the trlplets, lives in Baltimore Mr.. Isaac
frice is principal of school at Reynoldstown,
Nd, and Mr.. Abraham Price is a salesman
and lives at Westminster.
Irlplets as old as the Messrs. Price are rare
enough, but they are generally of both sexes.
several years ago one of the New York papers
published a sketch of the Messrs. Price and
asked to hear from any other set of triplets-
all males or all females-and it is said that no
reply was received. Physicians say that cases
OF triplets of the samesex living to the prime of
lie are so rare as to be considered remarkable.
The Messrs. Price were born in York county,
"a. There were nine children in the family,
including the triplets, and all are living and
enjoying good health. Messrs. Abraham and
Isaac Price are particularly large and well-de-
veloped. Mr.. Jacob Price, while not quite as
large as his brothers, is wiry-looking man.
Messrs. Abraham and Isaac Price each have
three children, the former two boys and girl
and the latter three boys. Mr.. Jacob Price
has two boys.
Mr. and Mrs Ephraim Price, the parents of
these remarkable triplets, are hale and hearty,
Mr.. Price is 75 years old and his wife two years
younger.
MORE AND OLDER PRICE TRIPLETs.
: jackson, Miss, boasts of triplets named
Price who are 65 years old-two brothers and
sister. The brothers stand feet in their
stockings and weigh 10 pounds each. They
were born in North Carolina, and it is singu-
lar coincidence that they shonld bear the same
family name as the Baltimore county triplets.
The Mississippi Prices are all strong and heal
thy and bid fair to live many more years.
Annual Report of the Sheppard and
Pratt Hospital.-The tenth annual report of
Or. E. n. Brush, medical superintendent of
tic Sheppard and Pratt Hospital. near Tow
sou, has heen issued 1t shows that on No
vember Both, 1901, there remained in the in
stitudon 81 patients, of whom 40 were men
and AZ women. During the year LII cases were
treated and discharged from the hospital, and
in these cases the following results were noted:
Recovered, q; much improved, 10; died, IS;
cases of inebriety or drug addiction, 3.
The institution aims exclusively to treat
chronic disorders. Quoting thereport, many
applications have been made for admission of
cases of chronic insanity. In all cases there
seemed no doubt that these cases would not be
benefited by hospital care the admission of
the case was refused. In some instances the
application was based on desire to secure
permanent home for patient for whose re-
coyery all hopehad long ago been abandoned.
In no case has any presumably recoverable
cases been declined, andin numerous cases the
patient was accorded the benefit of any doubt
which existedin this respect and admitted on
trial.
The work of the institution is it is stated in
the report, charitable to greater extent than
is generally known. About this the report
says: 1.-THE hospital has received from the
beginning, and will probably continue to re-
ceiVa as long as il exists DatientS whose rala-
tiyes or friends have paid whatever charges
have been fixed by the medical superintendent
for their care and treatment. This has Been
done in full conformity with the purposes of
the hospital and in strict accord with the views
ofthe founder of the institution. who intended
itsbenefits, as he distinctly said, mot only for
the poor, but for such as were able to pay He
placed the poor first in his enumeration, and
from the outset of the administration of the
hospital they have always been considered"