The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-09

changed as often as-is necessary tt,
keep it clean and pure. The duration
of the bath depends on the patient.
Some quiet down and are taken out in
one two or three days, some have re-
manned in the bath as high as sixteen
days Those who are trying this sys-
tenn claim most gratifying results
Opposes University Annexation.
Mr. Elliott does not believe in allow
ing the patients of the state insane asy-
lums to be used as material for lex
pertinent stations for the benefit of
the medical students of the state uni
suggested for adoption in this state.
Mr.. Elliott raps this plan in the fol-
lowing paragraph:
'sThe only place for these reception
hospitals is in connection with our
state hospitals.
I'm some states an effort has been
made to segregate the psycopathic
hospital from the state institutions for
the insane and establish it as a sepa
rate hospital under state care. This
policy has been chiefly promoted by
the state and other large universities
in the questionable ambition to extend
the scope of their curriculum until it
covers every phase of education. The
plan contemplates the reception of Sc
lected cases at these universities, adj
juncts where they may secure 'scien-
tific' treatment by interns and students
until such time as the caprice of the
management is satisfied, then they are
to be transferred to the state asylumS,
there to receive such attention as the
custodial appointments of the inStitu-
ton may provide. The plan suggests
itself as being some thing in the nature
of an additional experimental station
to these large institutions of learning
rather than hospitals, the purport of
which should be the cure of every case
of insanity that will in any way re-
spond to well directed and persistent
treatment An insane hospital has
R,.1, - k1,0 avn
bition to cure every possible durable
case that is admitted is in any way
clouded. I can conceive of no influence
that would compromise the esprit de
corps of hospital more than poncy
that contemplates admitting to that
hospital only such cases as had been
pronounced incurable before admis-
sion.'
Place for Criminal Insane.
Mr. Elliott strongly urges that Kan
sas should have a place to put It's crlfnl-
nal insane. He says:
1T has been the experience in the
past, and will continue to be so in the
future that when some crafty criminal
ayails himself of a techincality, and es-
capes the penitentiary, and is sent 10
one of the hospitals, he becomes DIS
turber the day he arrives, and never
quits until he escapes, which ne nearly
armed with guns, clubs or revolvers ana
no one knows it better than he, and II
Is only a matter of time until he makes
his escape, and the attendants and OF
ficials are blamed for it.
1t is also urged that the state appro-
pirate money to establish medical IL
braries at the state hospitals, ana tnat
separate cottages be provided for the
attendants. so that they may be sep
arated from the patients during their
resting hours. The plan OF bulidlng
tubercular pavilions, which has been
adopted by Kansas, is warmly COM
mended.
In conclusion Mr.. Elliott says:
Il went through the institution visit
ed with a desire to gather their good
points that 1 might introduce them al
I might not allow our institutions to
fall into them, and I say to you with
pride that Kansas institutions Will
With credit to the state, bear compare
SON with any in the United States, in
the substantial construction OF their
cere and treatment of their inmates,
and the quality of their Administrations"