Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1907-03-07
P|kKUAM WANTS An
|NARMARY Built
Needed For Housing OF
Those Slightly
Insane

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WIN Tue exception oi the reading OI
'he fies'dehls report FRED Z. smith
occulied the chdir.
! III MS report the President called
we attention OF the Board to the Oahu
insane Asylum. lie stated that the
palahce, SDZ,l5S, OF the loan appropri.
a.'on lor new buildings, mas lapscd
III view Oh the TACT That the insane
asylum Is oyer-crowded and impera-
uNeE neeus new building FOR men
new ulhlhB room aud Kitchen, Pink
nam recommends that the Legislature
ana the Governor be requested to re-
appropriate the money Ia cover thc
aDoNe-haned buildings aud their fur
hishlhss III 81 lar as needed, any nai'
uhce 10 DE USED To establish AN annex
W the insane asylum 10 be designated
as an lhhrihar!.
Inc report Included etter from
~ Ehleisoi, endorsed ny Sherin lau-
Nea' III Wnlch Emerson refers TO the
aIse nuhlneI OF persons brought Ia
the ponce station az suspects, Thought
n oe 'hsahe' OF heId Tor investigation.
'ncse people says Emerson, may he
cIaSsihed as iollows: ]. Victims OF
'he liquor haDit, either IN the acute ~
chronic FORM; :. Persons found help
less through ph! steal debility and aD-
!ect poverty; 3. Persons who are sub
.eet 10 hysterical or nervous attacks
lhat suggest insanity or that lie near
20 its border land; 4. Idiots and I'M
Decilesi .. Insane persons. The sta
ton House is the first place of deten.
ZION Tor these people because there IL
10 other place available.
Each one OF these classes besideD
the min furnishes It's quota of insane;
Out the process Of determining which
are insane and which are not. vi
searching out the data on which To base
the DIAGNOSIS OF insanity. when that H.
made ana finally of gaining the atten-
tloh OF the court Tor the consideration
oi the case, Is not task that can al
ways DE accomplished in day; II ma.
require several days Now, an insane
person Is NOT per sc Iaw-breaker, and
u IL not Just or seemiy that during the
Time when ne is under investigation he
ShouId DE confined III the same en-.
closure with criminals. or be subject 10
the indlsnity OF association with them.
Again, II Is often the case thai
.hese people need special medical al.
uehiioh ana nursing during this very
seriod Oh examination, and the lack
~ II may ACT uhiavoraDly upon them.
me same iacts ana reasoning apply to
me ph!sicaliy wrecked and poverty
S,rieheh persons the police unavoid-
ABLY gather III.
inc Statioh House Is not furnished
WIN the means OF doing Tor these PEG"
pc what thes neon 10 nave done ior
lnen'' nor was II intended ior any such
PURPOSE, ana wheh the attempt Is made
~ put u 10 such use the result Is, 10
oay tne Ieast' unsatisfactory.
=, mar s'ruck me that way OF TO-
nei W 'h' present undesirable sllua-
uoil hilsh' DC FOUND by the establish
lient VI uelehtioh ward IN connection
WIN tne Insane asylum at halihi, Al
,hIs piace the suspects might he
helu turing sneh time as they were
unuN' examination ana IL might per-
ulps serve as retreat where DRINKS
ana victims OF deiirium tremens, when
Was .hVusnl pest, might DE KEPT
uN,il theS nad come 10 themselves.
our hospitals, says Pinkham In his
report are at times embarrassed with
persons, lrlehdless' poverty stricken,
nhu permanent! ihcapacitated, who do
,ot require treatment nut whom II IL
i,npossip'e 10 discharse. occasionally
'ases are met SO physicaiiy ihcapacital
gu ana lhuisent common humanity In
i.ca,es pro''sioh should De made f0i
'hehi
Nei'her 'he territory or the counties
aie VI nnahcia' position 10 establish
or maintain number OF new institu.
, .,ons WIZ" costi! piah's ana organiza'
IONS put ! Dele'e are bound ana JUS
'!heu III auuihs 10 the usefulness OF
"Nts.ihs institutions
ou,siGe' p't adjacent, ana mauka %.
the asylum enclosure our able bodied
INMATES are sr|iNs quite an area OF
srouhu on when might be built the
ihhrihary separate from the Asylum
proper put under the Asylum admins
t'nt'oii anu supplied from the directly
nuJnceh, culinary department OF that
luNIltutlOn,