The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1905-10-14
Plea Made At Meeting of
Charity Workers for Tu-
berculOsis Wards in All
New Jersey Institutions.
VILLAGE FOR EPILEpTICs
DIR. H. NJ WEEKS DEFENDS THE
WORK DONE THERE AND
MAKES SUGGESTIONS FOR M
PRoyEMENT-CARE OF DEFEc-
TIVES.

TIYES.
Amongst the topics discussed at the
meeting at. the heads of charity institu-
tutions held at Trenton this week were
the State Home for Girls, Consumption
and Epilepsy.
Mrs. E. V. H. Mansell, of the State
Home for Girls. maintained that more
of the State wards should be cared for in
small cottages. She claimed they would
be much easier controlled ana pacilied
then than they are now in large build
ings While the reformatory work of the
State at present is encouraging, She be-
lieved it would be much more 50 if the
cottage idea prevailed. In closing she
said that the new building at the girls
hcme would have to accommodate two
families. and no house was evo- but
that could successfully shelter more than
one family.
DR.. /. D. Evans, medical director Of
the State Hospital for the Insane at
Morris Plains, supported Mrs. aIanssI
in her position. DR.. Evans also made the
claim thar all the State institutions
should be provided with tubereulosis
wards. He advocated the plan of pro-
yiding separate buildings for epilepsie
patients during the times when they be
came violent. If this We're done At Jhe
village for epileptics he said, number
Of epileptics now in The insane hospitals
might be sent there, thus relieving The
hospitals. DIR. Evans commended %e
use of entertainments Of the right sort
in caring for the wards of the State.
Continuing, he maintained that she
State should be represented on the board
of every county Institution. receiving
funds from the State. and insisted that
this representation should be of the most
active character.
Captain C. F. Curry, superintendent of
the Camden County Asylum. discussed
the village for epileptics. He said it
would never have been secured but for
the claim that it would be self-sustain-
ing and would relieve the other State in
stitutions. He claimed that it would
never be sslf-sustaining and that no other
institutions had been relieved by it.
Professor Johnstone spoke on the
Training School for Feeble Minded at
yineEand He said it was founded by
Profess.r Garr-son. and was private
corporation. The State pays Annually
for the maintenance of the State wards
there an average of $3.50 each. He sid
there was room for mere children there.
but until this year the Legis .arure had
uot appropriated a sufficient maintenance
fund to pay for all the children that
/ could be accommodated.
During his talk Pr fessor Jobnstone.
laid down Il novel principle as basis Of
extending the work of the State in csr-
ing for detectives. Every defective. ne
claimed, when maintained in the ham
requires the attent ON Of from thre
five. .persous to care Tor it. generally Ike p--.
ing 4 sister or brother from att mi
school making the mother slave su6
in, other ways interfering with the worx
of the family. When These detectives
are placed in State inStinJ on one ar
tendant can Ioak after four or avs ii
them The re.nl is shat the Ii ee or
four who were formerly caring for the
detective are sent back to citizenship u Id
in the long run the State profits thereby.
DR.. H. NJ. Weeks reviewed the work
Of the village for epileREies and outlined.
the difficulty in securing the necessary
/ appropriations from the Legislature. Su-
] perintendent Weeks said he lived the
| first five months at the village on bare
floors because the lawmakers would not
appropriate the money to furnish the ael-
ministration building. He disputed the
statement that the village had not re-
/ lieyed other State Institutions. and claim
ed twenty patients had been re-
| ceived from the Trenton Insane Asylum.
The reason it had not relieved the other
Institutions in greater degree. DR..
Weeks said, was because the managers
knew there were many epileptics in the
State with no Institutional care. aud tAey
believed it better to admit them than 10
take patients from the other Institutions
! where they We're already being cared for.
Captain Curry insisted that a certain
class of epilepties We're a menace to al
the ether patients in the institutions
where they are inmates. and these should
be cared for at the village
Just before the conference adjourned
Governor Stokes entered the chamber.
Commissioner Wight outlined to him the
result of the meeting. That is very.
/ gratifying, was the reply
/ Commissioner Wight was authorized ID
appoint the necessary committees to ar.
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