The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-03-14
Committee Appointed to Visit In
Institution Recommends APP
preparation of 100000.
WOULD NOT BUY THE PROPERTY
Thinks City Should Maintain the
Insane Hospital, but th.JState
Should Lend II
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adjournment { Sentative Muir
ply of St l. Wy of the commit
tee appoints ST. Louis Insane
Asylum, fix nrt. Three hundred
The repor, nends that 500. 900 be
appropriated TO h maintain the institu-
ton. and that it be not purchased by the
State. The report reads as follows:
Your committee of six-three from each
houSe-appointed to visit ST Louis to as
certain on what terms the city would trans
Ter ITS Asylum for the Insane to the State,
the same to be conducted in the future as
STATE institution. the city of St Louis to
pay Tor It's insane on the same terms as the
county. pegs leave to report:
Your committee visited the sylIm at St.
Louis, inspected the institution at ground.
also the foorhousc. where the incurable in
sane ere cared for. and Is of the opinion
mat the plan is at present impracticable.
for the reason that the city does not desire
TO dispose OF It's property. and the property
Is 100 valuable Tor the State to purchase.
OVERCROWDED.
Your committee finds the ASYLUM excel
lently manager by Doctor Runge. the super
intendent, but terribly overcrowded. The
building IVES intended to accommodate SOD
patients. but on the day your committee
visited the institution there were tvs pa
tients. which is average daily number
of inmates. The Poorhouse is used as an
sane and idiots. This institution is ex-
ceilc9tl: managed by Superintendent Rem
mers and a roorhouse in name only. the
paupers. with few exceptions being housed
IN barracks. erected on the premises.
1T is not the intention IF your committee
to submit a lengthy report. but TO tell the
the CT nditon of the insane in the St. Louis
asylum Including the Poorhouse which is
In reality an annex to the asylum is one
susceptible of great improvement. The
health authorities of the city claim (and
your committee believes the claim is well
founded) that the city is caring for many
insane persons who have no legitimate
claim on the city.
The city of St Louis is willing its health
officers say. to care for its own insane. but
great that their Institutions are overcrowd-
ed. and the burden has become very heavy.
Fhey claim that there are but few counties
inmates to the institution, and others come
from no one knows where.
RECOMMENDS APPROPRIATIONS.
Your committee is thoroughly satisfied
that the asylum proper and the poorhous,
capacity to care for insane people in a
humane manner. Your committee draws
the veil and refers you to the report OF
to visit our eleemosynary institutions. where
In plain language is set out the condition of
these unfortunates Your committee asser's
that that report is true and believes that
the time has arrived for the State to come
forward and assist the city of st. Louis 10
care for these unfortunates.
Humanity and justice demand that the
State lend d helping hand. With words
carefully weighted, with full understand
ing of the situation: your committee rec
ommends that 100000 be appropriated by
the General Assembly. to be used by the
city OF st. Louis in caring for these I'M
fortunate people. In the asylum proper are
SOS insane and In the Poorhouse annex 9ls
insane and idiots. total of 16l4.
.In lending helping hand to the city
in caring for this large number of unfor-
tunates, your committee believes the State
is only performing a duty it owes to the
city Of st. Louis. from whose Treasury
hundreds of thousands of dollars are poured
annually into the Treasury of our State
JOHN F. MORTON. Chairman;
"C. A. SMITH
JOHN SARTORIUS, .....3 IN EI
BEN LUG.
JOHN w. LONG.
MARION A. MURPHY, Secretary"