The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-02-20
CONDITIONS At HOSPITALS
Governor Glenn Makes Public Re-
suits of Investigation
Only -Four Patients, Out of a Total Of
1913 Were Able to Pay Their Ex-
penses at a Private Asylum-Praise
for the Management and Directors.
DR.. Ivey'S Home Partly Burned.
Other Raleigh News Notes.
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, n. c., February II.

Raaelgh, n. g., February II.
State Librarian Miles o. Sheriff. has
just sent off two more sets of the
North Carolina state records as COM
piled by Justice Walter Clark, being an
extension of the Colonial record series.
One of these sets went to Berlin and
the other to London.
The members of the North Carolina
corporation commission are now max
ing an Investigation over the lines Of
the SeabOard Air zine Railway Com
pany between Hamlet and rutherford
ton complaints having been lodged as
to that part of the system.
The state chartered the Monarch
with r. S. Lewis, and j. r. Lewis of
Dallas and other parties, together with
several from GastOnia as stockholders.
The authorized capital stock is $780,
900.
Insurance Commissioner Young to-
day held the first hearing in the matter
of complaint against the knights of
Gideon, d negro insurance organiZa-
ton on account of certain irregulari-
ties in the conduct of their business in
parts of the state.
Governor Glenn has gone to High
Point where he tonight delivers the
principal address before the Manufac-
facturers Association at that place.
The governor expects to return TO his
office tomorrow.
The supreme court of North Carroll
ma is engaged in hearing appeals from
the second district. Attorney General
Gilmer will some time this week APP
pear in the case of the state VS. o
ley from Lenoir county, Indictment
having been for the murder of Ed
WarterS.
Governor Glenn issued his report as
to the condition of the state hospitals
in these words: ITO the people of the
state: So much has been said and writ
ten about the state hospitals for the
white insane, thai | felt it my duty,
using every agency at my command, to
make a full and thorough investigation
of their management and condition.
THE law requires the indient insane
to be provided for, in preference to
those able to- pay their way in private
hospitals, aid it 1Jas alleged that il
this rule was rigidly carried out
enough patients, who could be cared
for elsewhere, would b removed to
make room for all the INDECENT now in
the county jails and homes. When L
commenced the investigation, / confess,
| thought it would appear that ten or
fifteen patients in the Raleigh hospital,
and thirty to forty at
would have to be removed, as not be-
longing to the INDECENT class. no as
certain the exact facts, the super1n-
tendent and the directors OF both IN
situations made a report to me, set
ting forth what patients could pay ana
how much. Then witR me, every pa
tent whose financial condition was
uncertain, was carefully looked INTO.
Then through the county officers, ana
with the aid of gentlemen in whom l
a confidence, the tax books were
scrutinized. and every effort made to
ascertain their ability to pay. L also
sent Mr.. Beckwith, with a emb OF
the board of internal Improvements, to
examine every doubtful ease, until
now, | sincerely believe, we know all
that are, or are not, INDECENT, under
the meaning of the constitution as con-
strued by the supreme court.
I'VE found that in the Raleigh hos
pital there had been treated during the
year 1905, 531 patients-2oO males n
2S1 females. At MOrganton. during
the same period, 1912 patlents@U
males and 1876 females. | also ascer-
tanned, after careful inquiry, that to
maintain pntients in a private hosplt-
al. costs at least $500 per year, the
-z-z -&o ho-y;+1 hniy0 in
North Carolina, where patients are
taken for SO per week.-Mrs. not in
Guiding clothing. We also found that
private hospitals would not tax per-
sons who were e~pileptics, and who
We're afflicted with hOmicidal and sui
cidal mania, unless they were paid
largely in excess of ordinary rates.
Governed by the charges of the prl-
vate hospitals, we found in the state
hospital at Raleigh, only two patients
who could pay the amounts necessary
for care in these institutions. One
has already been removed and the
other is waiting for her guardian TO
get her a place.
AT MorgantoD we found two pa
tients who could be cared for else
where. and they will be removed as
soon as arrangements can be made.
We also found one person in Raleigh,
and three in Morganton, who are over
twenty-one years Of age, and INDECENT,
but their parents amply able to take
care of them, and we therefore mott
fed said parents to come and remove
them.
I'VE did find in Raleigh, thirteen
who could and did pay the state from
s25 to $40 per year, and in Morgan
ton thirty-two who could and did pay
from $50 to $50 per year-nineteen
paying $3.50 each year. Under our
construction of the law these patients,
while paying something, were indi-
gent, for if removed from hospitals
they were compelled to go to jail, as
no private asylum would take them