New-York tribune., 1906-07-15

cred. and II they are such as may need help or
oversight to visit them afterward in their homes
wherever they go; then we try to enlist what
ever organization give the particular help the
patient requires. Sometimes 1t is the Charity Or
ganization Bureau for Employment for the Hands
capped that we apply to.
There was one case-here Is the record Of it-of
a young fellow who was waiter in restaurant
working twelve hours or more day. He gave out
mentally. and was sent to the hospital over on the
island, but discharged, recovered, in a little
the old conditions he would have the old trouble
again. Through the bureau we got easier NOTE, Mork iol
sadder case she went or, taking up typeWrllteIl
Side who got exhaustive psychosis under the strain
OF trying to support a family of a wife and three
children on $ week. which was the utInOsS ne
could earn, though he worked long hours making E
nS te4 II fhg 6oe % aTE % in the hos
pital he discharged as recovered. but, OF
course he went back 70 the old life and or course
he began to show the strain again We are get
ting him some money for rent from one OF the s re-
because there are more insane women than men.
but because the women are more hkely 10 heed
The agent who does the visiting fer Or the & com
vGus tTa1ing in the the Cha charity Wss HortS6 said
The patients at the hospital an see seer" t 70
RPyS Rbs Rs s hST @sa tanG 5haS the pns5
notice that that patient Is soon alscils To- 10 soa
some patient Who is to be discharsed-to make ar
!angeents see ,rS %nTf be ne eatientS IL e family
ssTyrheI I visit the families of patients and the
Datjents who have returned home from the nos
1itai am always received cordially when say
come from the hospital Sometimes when Knock
S.oica viii call out 70 know who ii is Then al
Wavs saw In as mild tone as can command. 4
v,o over from the hospital TO see your daughter,
o- nv NJ wants TO know how your husband IS
since ne came back. Then generally the Ooor
opens oI1sTE wide and | am warmly welcomed.
A.F'Te0uently discharged patients speak 70 me
,.oIuntary Of the good treatment they received at
tGa hospital Some Of the families are ashamed %
Soye N known that they had a relative in the hOF
nifaI and try hard TO keep il dark Not long agG
called on a woman TO arrange about her sister :
coming home. She followed me into the hall and
knows where my sister has been
Now and then you ind person who is rather
proud of having been real crazy. One man lately
discharged said to me, with great enthusiasm:
why, you know ] very bad when was in
the hospital Sometimes il took six men to hold
One day last week Miss Horton went to New
Jersey % take Jewish girl over there who had
been discharged. apparently recovered, from the
hospital. but seemed in danger of a relapse.
THE girl" Miss Horton said. lived far down on
the East Side. and would be out all day Wanderinf;
about the streets, and her family wouldn't know
where she
Her sister who works in factory, con
stantly worried about her. There was no one 10
follow and look after her; her mother Is too cid.
and, besides. the girl would probably have turned
on her. as they frequently will turn on their best
friends. She taken 90 New Jersey TO stay with
a woman who boards such cases, IN the nope tha'
the country air and life Will do her good.
The committee has often 20 deal with patients
whose insanity was caused by alcoholism ana IN
such cases. tf the mans-OF IL may be woman s.
4 former occupation was one throwing him OF hsF