The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-08-30
WILL MISS DR.. SINGER.
His Loss to Nebraska Will be Sc
riouS One.

The Nebraska state insane hospital
in Norfolk viii sorely miss DR.. II.
Douglas Singer when he leaves the in
stitutiCn September 10 to accept a
higher appointment in Illinois. DR..
Singer is an alier st of national repu-
tation ard the Norfolk hospital has
been unusu- lily fortunate in having
him as agcistant hyaician. He goes
to Klnkakeo, H., to become director
of the IsychCpathic institute.
The purpose Cf the institute is to
study the histo!y CT diseases of the
insane. The salary is said to be equiv
alert to $4,000 a year. He takes
charge of the il titute September 10.
DR.. Singcc was a resident Of Omaha
when he WIS APP ointed to a position
in the No 5lk asylum.
The pup, 1e of the institute at Kan
kakee is to Investigate the history Of
diseases end trace the course of the
disease in the patient from its incep-
ton to its recovery or death. A lab
oratory will be established for inyesti-
cations. The director will have first
assistant, a stenographer, and, posi-
bly,, a clinical clerk to take charge OF
the laboratory work. AS it is the pur-
pose of the state authorities to make
the institution the largest in the world,
the director will receive salary
equivalent to $4,000 per year to begin
with. Assistant physicians from all
the hospitals for the insane in the
state will be sent to this institution
each year fer a course of lectures and
for laboratory work extending over
a period of, at least, two months for
each physician. In this way it is eX-
pected that the causes of nervous dis
eases will be thoroughly investigated
and the most modern methods adopted
for the cure of the patient rather than
maintain them in the institution until
death.
DR.. Singer is the fourth Nebraskan
to accept a place in the Illinois state
service Superintendent j. L. Greene,
who was instrumental in bringing the
attachments of DR.. Singer to the at
tention of the Illinois authorities, is
at the head of the eastern hospital for
the insane which contains 2,4OO pa
tients. The institute will be estab'
lished in his institution DR.. Greene
was formerly at the head CT the Ne
braska hospital for the insane at Lin
coin. and also at Norfolk.
Professor Henry II. Hewitt, who has
been director of music at the state
normal school, Peru, Neb., has accept
ed the position of musical director al
the Illinois school for the blind al
Jacksonville.
w. A. Hackney, formerly employed
in the Nebraska hospital for the in
sane, is now employed at Kankakee.
DR.. Singers Career.
DR.. H. Douglas Singer was born II
London, England, thirty-two years ago
He was educated in the English public
schools where he won the scholarship
for science and chemistry which paiC
his tuition fees in the st. Thomas med
ical college from which he was grad
uated in 1898. He attended the Lon
don university where he became bach
elor of medicine and was graduated
in 1900 with his degree, doctor OF med
icine. From the London university h
went TO the Royal college of physician
where he took consulting cours
which he completed in 1901. For 81
months, after leaving the Royal co
lege of physicians, he was inferno i
the st. Thomas hospital which cor
tanned 600 beds. He was then appoint
ed assistant superintendent of the clir
ical laboratory of the st. Thomas hos
pital where he examined everythin
at the bedside. having charge of tn
meteorological and the microscopes