The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-12-05
The Thirty-third Annual Report
Contains Interesting Suggcs-
tons and Information.
THE. DEATH OF MAJOR BOND
Colored Mothet Rolls OH Infant
Il While Asleep and smothers
ia. p. Hill Camp.
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Ital, OF which Or. w. II. Drewry Is SUPER
intcndent. which has Just been published.
contains interesting sta tistlcs, SUCCESS
lions and recommendations. This Is the
thirty-third annual report Of the insti-
tuition. The special board Of directors
is composed OF L. w. Lane, Jr, Of VIII
Harrisburg. chairman .ex oflcio; Julius
straus, Of Richmond; Robert Gillian Of
Petersburg; and Robert 3. Cooke, Of
Norfolk. During the past year POS pa
TENTS were admitted to the hospital-15l
men, t147 women. OF these, 234 were first
admission cases; 40 had been thore be-
fore, and Ii had been previously admitted
lSthrce or more times. At the close OF the
year there were 1,058 in the hospltal-5l2
men, 54 women. III
INTERESTING FACTS,
Il AS to the type Of mental disease Of
those admitted the rnanias constituted
81 per cent, as against, q per cent. for
melanchola; 12 per cent. for dcmentia
Including paresis. AS to occupa ton most
Of those received were ordinary aborers:
about Is per cent. had no occupation
were Migrants, lndeed-and IN quite q
large number OF cases there Is doubt
as to whether they worked or led lives
of:indolence. No patient had collegiate
educaton: %. or Z per cent. had com
mon school education; 1l6, or 90 per cent,
could simply read and write, and l6O,
6, IS per cent. were illiterate. OF the
total number under care, 13o ware dis
charged 100 were considered recovered.
and 1o3 died. The causes of death were:
Apoplexy and paralysis. II ; tuberculosis.
20 J; organic head disease, -; epilepsy,
II, etc. There were no suicides or DEANS
from violence. The health Of the patients
is excellent and the sanitary condllloh
Of the hospital perfect.
5.5-5 INSANITY INCREASE.
IN discussing the increase of insanity
In the negro. the announcement ass,s = Us
the cause to race degeneration, the lack
OF the kind discipline, and moral and reg
ular habits which was enforced In the
DAYS Of slavery, and also to the lack
of clean and hygienic surroundings and
nourishlng food. 5za
Employment Of the patients at the
institution Is enforced varied amuse-a
n,cnts are furnished; daily walks and
pleasant exercise taken. and religious
services held every Sunday. Great I'M
provements have been made to the hos,
pital during the year; the water and
fire system Is perfect. and everything
| for the safety. comfort and welfare OF
the patients have been accomplish he'd.
| In it's management the hospital Will
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| sttution in the country.
MAJOR BOND.
Major Antiobus Bond who died last
| evening, In the seventy-third year Of his
age, was an honored and valued citizen
and a splendid Confederate soldier. He
was born in Petersburg, August "a 1881;
was for over forty years intimately con-
r.ected with. the tobacco trade Of the city,
End in business, as In private life, bore
a high character for integrity honesty
and fair dealing. At the beginning OF
the war he enlisted in Company y, Third
Virginia Regiment. Harper's Brigade,
Pickett's Division, and served to the end.
He was several times promoted for gall
lantry, and made a record, of which any:
Virginia soldier might be proud. During
The great four years struggle, he was
absent from his post only seventeen days
| and these days were spent IN prison.
Major Bond Is survived by his Wife,
three sons and four daughters, viz.:&Ed-
ward J. Bond. of Baltimore; Thomas ..
| and William A. Bond, OF this city; Mrs.
S, A, Plummer, Mrs. someryille Gray.
and Misses Ada M. and Mamie Bond, OF
Petersburg. The funeral will take place
|to-morrow afternoon from Grace Chuch,
at 3 o'clock. A. P. Hill Camp, OF Which.
| he was a member, will attend IN body,-
fSMOTHEREDE HER INFANT.
| Coroner Leigh was summoned TO the
house Of Mary Banks, colored. N B!and.
ford, this morning, toGview the body or
her dead infant. Investiga ton showed
that the child had died during the night,
as tho result of accident, the mother
In her sleep having turned over on the
| infant and smothered 1t to death.
a. p. Hill Camp Of Confederate Veter-
ans, nj largely attended meeting last
night. elected the following officers:
Commander. William 2. Badger first
lieutenant commander. L. L. Marks; sec
ond enant-commander, r, q Dayis'
third eutenant-commander. Simon Sc
,var1 4 di,,tant, Carter r. Bishop; quar-
tern1astcr, Homer Atkinson; officer OF
ms day, A, ]. Clements; surgeon, Dr.
yohn Ia, Claiborne: assistant surgeon, Pr.
lanes W, CluIborne chaplain, Rev. w,
| q starr. D. D.; treasurer, Hugh II.
smith, sergeant-major, John 7. Parham;
y;dette, N. B. simons; Pcolor-serEeaht o.;
4, pulley; color-gunrds, ]. ., Caldwe!i
and ", II, Kevan. Executive commit
tea. r. b. Davis r.. s., Beckw1th, George
3 Rernard. stitI Boiling, p. G. Hoy. W..
N, Jones, Fl. G. Roper,
The camp unanimously voted thanks to
tho visiting commander Captain J. r.
| Patteson. for the faithful and acceptance
manner in which he had discharged ms
duties ..,,,,, 80 !
The Waverly peanut factory, Wn'ch WIS >
recently destroyed with 2.oCo SACKS Q ~
nennuts, is to be rebuilt at an early day,
and new and most improved machinery
pss' PASTOR POUNDED
Rev, j, A, Thomas, pastor OF Wesley
| nj. p, Church, was very literally "pound-
| edu by the ladies OF his congregation
last night, and the family larder TILED
| to OVERLOOKING. -,
arrested on q charge preferred against
her 81 Mrs, Lufaey Of the theft OF the
latter's chickens, was acquitted to-day,
her accuser failing to appear against
her,
Euliss-Owens.
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