Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-21
HEAD0F STATE ASYLUM
Dr.. Charles H. Clark Receives
an Appointment.
WIRES HIS ACCEPTANCE
Asked to Report for Duty First Of
- .. Next Month. - -
INSTITUTION IN CLEVELAND, O.
New Superintendent Has Been Mem
Der of st. Elizabeth Hospital
Staff Since 1899.
INSTITUTION IN CLEVELAND, {

DR.. Charles H. Clark, a member of the
medical staff of the Government Hospital
for the Insane in this city, has been APP
pointed superintendent of the State Hospi-
tai for the Insane at Cleveland. Ohio, to
succeed Dr. A. B. Howard, whose resigna-
ton has been presented to the board of
trustees in charge of the Cleveland institu-
ton. DIR. Clark received a telegram yester-
day from the board of managers of the hos
pital at Cleveland. notifying him of his Sc
lection for the position of superintendent
there and he Immediately wired his accept
ance of the post.
DR.. Clark will leave his position at st.
Elizabeth Asylum shortly after April \
next to take up his new duties. He was
requested to report in Cleveland by the first
of next month but will require a number of
days after that time to close up his work
at St. Elizabeth, SO that it may be April
ID before he assumes charge of the inStitu-
ton at Cleveland
The selection of DR.. Clark to fill the posi-
ton at Cleveland became known in that
city yesterday, and in the course of the
day number of kilograms reached him1
containing requests that he make known
some of his plans for conducting that in
Stitution. The board of managers of the
asylum at Cleveland recently undertook an
investigation of the state of affairs in that
hospital and the people of the city have
been following the course of events with
lively interest The appointment of DR..
Clark is in line with the endeavor that is
being made in the state of Ohio to regen-
crate some of the institutions for the in
sane that need more progressive methods
than have been found to be employed, it is
declared.
Too Soon to Outline Plans.
1T is too early to talk about policies at
Cleveland, said DR.. Clark last evening Il
Enn hut
and am not acquainted with its degree of
proficiency, nor its shortcomings if it has
any. | can only take to the work there NV
best judgment and the experience gained
here and elsewhere, to the end that the
cleveland hospital may be ranked with our
modern and progressive asylums for the
care and treatment of the insane"
The new superintendent will be no
stranger to Ohio institutions for the in
sane, as he served in several of them be-
fore coming to this city. He is native of
Mechanicsburg, Ohio; obtained his medical
education at Starting Medical College, CO.
lumbus, Ohio. and was the honor graduate
from that college in 1893. He was then
appointed house physician at st. Francis
Hospital, Columbus Ohio where he re-
manned for year.
His appointment as first assistant physi-
clan to the Ohio Hospital for Epileptics. at
cialllpoiis, Ohio, followed, and he assisted
IN IN organizing and opening this, the second
institution of its kind to be founded in this
country. DR.. Clark served in this hospital
for four and half years, resigning to take
the post of second assistant physician at
the Columbus State Hospital, Columbus,
ONO under the late DR.. A. b. Richardson
lie continued there for one year and was
then selected by DR.. Richardson from the
stan TO accompany him to the new state
hospital at Massllon, Ohio. where he took
part In opening the institution, being Dr.
Richardson's assistant.
Successful in Corona+;4;,.,
After serving there for over a year DR..
clark received an appointment through
competitive examination as fifth as
slstant physician in the Government
Hospital for the Insane in Washington
under the late superintendent, DR.. A. B.
Richardson. He has been connected with
St. Elizabeth since 1899. having been pro
NOTED from charge of the female depart
ment to second assistant physician and
afterward to the position of clinical di-
rector which duties he has been per-
forming since April, 1906. Dr. Clark is a
member of the Medical Society of the Dis
trict of Columbia, of the American Medico-
Psycholog1cal Society and of the District
Society on Nervous and Mental Diseases.
He is professor of nervous and mental
diseases in George Washington University.
The services of DR.. Clark as an expert in
insanity have frequently been called upon
before the courts in the District, as well
as elsewhere, notably of late in the
strothers' murder trial in Virginia. Sew
eral Years ago Dr. Clark married Miss
CART of Massillon, Ohio. He has made
many friends here since becoming asso-
ciated with st. Elizabeth Asylum and has
been the recipient of numerous congratula-
lions on his new appointment.
The Cleveland State Hospital Is built on
the modern plan, is close to the city has
300 people within it's walls and covers
eighty-One acres of land.