Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-10-03
100 NANY |N[BR|AI[S
Board Of Control Forced to Els.
tablish Another Hospital for
Them at Cherokee
MAY YET TAX EVERY ASYLUM
The General Advantage Taken of the
Iowa Inebriate Law Is Rapidly Fill
ing Up the Hospital Capacity at Mt.
Pleasant and Board Seeks More Ac.
commodations at cheeroke.

commo dationS at CFeerokes
Special to mes-Republican.
Des Moines, Oct. 3-The board OF
control today made an order establish
ing new ward for inebriates at the
Cherokee hospital, to be in operation
by Oct. 10, after which time all inebri-
ates and morphine fiends from the
Cherokee and independence districts
will be sent there instead Of at Mt.
Pleasant.
Des Moines. Oct. 3.-The board OF.
control is seriously considering the
question of establishing a second de-
partnent for inebriates in another one
of the state hospitals. AT the present
rate of Increase of ineb1iates, the de-
partment at the Mount Pleasant hos
rital will soon be filed. Judge Robin
son said yesterday that if the number
CO patients committed to the inebriate
department continued to grow as 1t has
been, that it would be necessary to es-
tablish departments in all the hospitals
and that all of them would be filled by
from next winter.
The board has received the report for
Mount Pleasant for September. Sep
TENDER 80 there were eighty-five pa
t,<3 Yrv,d
new dipsomaniac law. The department
for inebriates was opened In the middle
of July. In July ten patients Were re-.
ceived, in August thirty-six ana III
September forty-four, total OF nine
ty. Discharges, deaths and escapes nave
cut down the total to eighty-five. An
examination of the reports on the M
sane population at Mount Pleasant
shows that in the whole month OF july
twenty-seven patients were admtled,
in August nine and in September six
teen. In September ten insane patients
were admitted to Cherokee. The re-
rorts on independence and Clarinda
hospitals have not been received, out
the board is convinced the number Is as
large as the total number of insane adj
mitted to the four state hospitals. what
to do with the inebriates becomes
ouandary and the board is at loss to
know to what lengths the new law Is
going to compel it to go in the way OF
providing room for the dipsomaniacs.
The board of control has directed Dr.
G. w. Mackin, of Ossian, inspector OF
county hospitals for the board, to IN
spect the various homes for friendless,
children in the state under the new law
enacted by the last general assembly.
DR.. Mackin will begin the inspection
of county institutions where insane are
kept at once and while on his rounds
will inspect the homes for friendless
children. 1t is estimated there are
about twenty of these homes In the
state.
Reports to the office of the board of
control for the month ending Septem-
Der 80 are from Cherokee. Glenwood
and Mt. Pleasant. There are 574 In
mates at Cherokee. $50 at Glenwood
and S64 at Mt. Pleasant.
Judge Kline, who has returned from
the monthly inspection of independence
hospital, reports conditions there salts
factory. There are S7S inmates at the
hospital.
An answer was filed in the supreme
court yesterday by James NJ. Pierce,
defendant in the Homestead litigation,
to the motion recently filed by the
plaintiff, S. +. Stewart, requesting an
order for the payment of outstanding
One of the charges made
in the motion of Stewart was that the T
defendant was allowing cash to aecum-
ulate instead of paying off outstanding
accounts past due, to the amount of
between $4,000 and 100000 The de-
PENDANT holds that he has taken the
course he has with the full knowledge
Of the plaintiff. The motion will be
argued at the beginning of the October
term.
Auditor of State Merriam yesterday
received the first copies of an edition
of the revised banking laws of the
state, with opinions of the attorney
general and court decisions. The
pamphlet is issued biennially and is
being distributed to bankers thruout
the state.
Articles OF Incorporation were filed
with the secretary of state
by the Morgan Drug Company. of Clar-
ion. with a capital of $4,000.