The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-11-16
THOUSAND INSANE
ARE UNCAREO FOR
Would Take $5.OO0.0O0
to Meet Conditions.
WILL MAKE APPEAL
Governor Will Urge Next Legislature
to Do its Duty Toward This Attic.
Ted Class in North Carolina.
Asylums Unable to Care for
Many.

Five hundred white insane persons
in North Carolina are clamorlng for
admission TO the State Hospitals for
the Insane in Raleigh and Morganton.
and over / 700 insane whites should
now be in the asylums. who cannot
he admitted is the condition of the
White insane in The State according To
the statements of DIR. James Mckee
Superintendent of the Hospital in
tlis city. and of DIR. p. l.. Murphy. SUI
perintendent of the MorSanton Hos
nital.
At the request of the two superin-
tcndents Governor Glenn yesterday
afternoon called meeting of TN,
Council of State for the purpose OF
hearing the representatives of the two
institutions on the condition of the
hospitals and the urgent need for
more room at each To care for the
insane who are either in jails and
county poor houses, or confined In
homes.
Those present were Superinten-
dents Mckee and Murphy, DR.. l.. J.
! Picot. Of Warrenton: Mr.. G. Il. Arm
field, of Statesville, and DR.. r. Ii.
Stancill. of Northampton county.
DR.. Murphy was spokesman for the
Two asylums. and said that recently
he had been urgently solicited by DR.
Mckee 10 take several patients. but
that there had been ali the year great
demand for room, and he could not
The situation was such. he said that
respectable women had been put in
Jail. They had considered the ad-
Visibility of discharginS the patients
who had been treated some time and
were considered harmless. and taking
in others who were violently insane
and desired an expression of the Coun-
ell on this proposition.
The condition Of the MorgantOn in
stitution now, he said is better tina"
ever before, but it is sadly in need
Of more room. There are in 1t al
present 647 women and Az men
with four persons on their way TO the
asylum. The hospital has sixteen
more patients than beds, and except
that several patients were out on pro-
baton. there would be a wholesale
turning out. He and DR.. Mckee to-
gether had refused admittance to 2i6
persons this year. and hundreds OF
letters had been received in regard
TO the admission of others. but they
had Informed their correspondents
that they did not have room foi
another patient. His board of direc-
tors had instructed him to confer
with DR.. Mckee on the ACCESSIBILITY o!
exchanging inmates. in mamie.
that would be advantageous To both
institutions, and TO the benefit of the
patients. and he was i'm Raleigh in re-
gard that matter.
Dr. .IcKee stated that he had nc
room for another patient at the Raj
cigh hospital. and the new building
will not be completed within a year
Ii can accommodate Only $50 rss-
TENTS. and the condition of the State
at large will not then be very greatly
benefited.
Insane Number 1000.
DR.. Murphy declared that the
number of insane whites in this State
is over 900. and that over 500 ar,
ciamoring for admission to the asy
Iums. He said there were two in
sane persons To every 1000 of popE
Iation and that in England there Wa
one insane person to every 200, an,
that i'm both this country and England
the percentage is greatly increasing
The population of North Carolina, h,
said, is increasing $4,000 or 10000
every year. and that from the increas'
Of population only would come more
than enough insane persons To fill tn'
uc2v building at the asylum here.
Or Murphv related several pathetic