The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-10-11
CENTRAL HOSPITAL
MAKES fine RECORD /
Report Of Or. Drcwry to Board
Of Directors Makes Good
Showing for Year.
NO INSANE IN THE JAlLs
AllSApplicants Are Now Prompt
1y Received Changes i'll
Staff Of Officers.
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PETERSBURG, VA. October H.
Btnte Commissioner OF Hospitals J. n.
Bauseman, OF Woodstock, and Chair
man Robert Gillian. Of Petersburg;
j, &. Bohanan, of snrry. and julius julius
straus, OF Richmond, Intended the an
nual meeting OF the board OF directors
Of the Central state Hospital at that
institution to-day, when contracts Tor
supplies FOR the ensuing quarter were
awarded to petersburg, Richmond ana
Norfolk merchants. and q most inter-
estine report for the fiscal year end
ing September 30th. was received from
the Superintendent, DR.. w. y. Drewry,
OF this city.
Tho RESIGNATION OF DR.. u. p. Bledsoc,
Of Lexington. as second assistant ply
stefan and pathologist, was accepted,
and Drs. n. G.. Hume and T. II. jar
raft, the third and fourth assistant
physicians, were promoted to second
and third. leaving the Office OF fourth
assistant untitled. The board decided
to appoint o patholOgist and bacterio-
logist, thus providing an additional
assistant and enlargIng the scope OF
In Good Condition.
pr. Drewry's report showed the in
stitution TO be In most prosperous
and efficient condition, both as to re-
suits achieved In Treatment of pa
tients and as to management stating
the Significant fact that there are no
insane In any cdunty or city Jail or
almshouse. and no applications for adj
mission to the hospital on file. a total
OF 1852 patients were In ths hospital
during the year, 3S1 applications for
admission we're received. and 1858 pa
t!ents were admitted, 1866 patients We're
discharged. The percentage OF recoy-
cries to number of admissions being
3O97 for macs and 1881 for females;
average. S3.4
Total receipts for the year amounted
TO s125,416.3l; expenses. s124Sae.14
leaving q balance Of STILLS and no
unpaid bills. The great value of occu-
nation and recreation as rcstoratives
In the treatment of patients and the
continued success OF the outdoor tent
and pavilion Treatment for tuberculosis
patients are emphasized among the
many successful results achieved.
ylsii of Veterans.
a battlefield commission, represent
Ing six regiments OF Pennsylvania vet
erans of Hartrauft's Division of the
Ninah Army Corps. and having IL
charge the election OF a site for
monument t. that division. reached
petersburg this morning. and are quar-
tered at the Stratford Hotel Fifteen
thousand dollars was appropriated By
the Pennsylvania Legislature last year
for the erection of such a memorial to
Ilartrauft's' Division on the battietields
around Petersburg, where the division
played prominent part and lost many
men. Thefsix members of1the COM
mission, REPRESENTING the six regiments
of the diytfon. are George w. Aughen-
baugh, oftYork, Pa. representing the
Two Huntedth Regiment. Henry El-
way, of Altoona. representing the Two
Hundred Ind Fifth Regiment; w. S.
the Two Hundred and Eighth Regi-
menL: J.|H. Frederick OF I.ockhaven,
pa. Representing the Two Hundred and
seventh Regiment Milton A. Embr!ck
OF Boiling Springs. Pa. representing
the Twj Hundred and Ninth. and Isaac
B. Brown, OF Cory. Pa. representing
the Two Hundred and Eleventh
Aessry Brown, E,mhrick and Elway are
respectively, president, secretary and
treasurer OF the commission. which is
accompanied by T.. Wellington Ruck-
stuhIi a New York sculptor; Mayor a
G. Hhdekoper, of Meadeville, Pa, anc
Mr. Saward w. Jones, of Boston. Mass
The SenuSyiSdnid3 iSeS isiosuao iitA' . "''r
proJsion for the transportation of the
yctrans OF Hartranfts Division to the
unwilling OF the monument, which will
pro,ably BIO made a great occasion by
nIlthe Confederate and Union veterans
In Petersburg at the time. 8
Charged With Bigamy.
William Il. Green. painter. who
his been In Jail for three months II
f,fault Of bond for good behavior
las arraigned in Mayor Joncs's cour
his morning on q warrant sworn gu
~ his wife, charging; bigamy, and al
leging that at the time of his mar
trlnEe to Laura f. Eanes, his presen
wife. on March I 4, 1882 he had ianothe
living wife, who Is named as. Vern'
i Wall. Green and his present wife hay
Il lived together continuously since thei
maria ge, eli ghteen years ago, and hav
several children.
Death Of Mrs. Bragg.
Mrs. Frances Mcdonald Bragg
widow OF Mr.. William L. Bragg, diet
yesterday at her homo in Lunenburs
county, in the ninety eighth year o
her age, after lingering illness from
paralysis. Mrs. Bragg was probabl!
tho Oldest resident OF the county. Sh'
Is survived by the following children
Messrs: T. c. Bragg, w. L. Bragg. D
r. Bragg, T.. W.. Bragg and Z. ]
Bragg. of Lunenburg; r. r. Bragg
Of this city. and III. Bragg, of Suth
erland. Va. The funeral took p1ac
8 this afternoon from the residence. AM
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