The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-12-29
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nydrObnerapeutlc and electrical de-
partments has been of gratifying
character. More than two Thousand
ectro-therapeuGic treatments were
given during the year and uniformly
good results have been obtained. In
the department. of hydro-therapy for
women 1896 treatments were given,
and in the department of hydrotherapy
for men, which has only been in opera
ton since June 1, 1908, 1910 treat
ments were given. These treatments
mainly consist of baths in the hot
air cabinets, circular jet and cleo
trio light baths, the Scotch douche,
the perineal standing and the perineal
sitting baths, the Sitz bath and gem
eral massage
Speaking of the overcrowded condi-
ltiOn Of the present institution and the
inadvisability of enlarging it, DR..
Evans again calls attention to the
matter of building third state hos
pital in another part of the state
:" If action were Immediately taken
in this matter under ordinary circum-
stances relief would not come to this
hospital, and to the one at Trenton for
at least two years. With both these
institutions overcrowded it is clear
that with the rapidly increasing in
sane population the conditions at that
time will be more than simply serious.
This is a problem too important in
character to be overlooked. Under
our present system of admission and
detention of insane PATIENTS the state
hospital can be overcrowded until the
cardinal principles of hygiene are vio-
lated, sanitary laws ignored, reason
able classification made impossible and
scientific treatment a matter not to
be considered.
Officers Of an overcrowded hospital
for the insane are unable to isolate
those persons suffering from contagious
or Infectious diseases, or properly sep
arate the violent and dangerous pa
tients from such as are entitled to
quiet quarters or incapable of protect
ing themselves from the attacks of
those violently excited and agtated. =
In table appended to Dr. Evans
report showing the occupations of those
admitted, ninety-fiye were housewives,
sixty-tive servants, tWenty-one
clerks. thirty-seven laborers, thir-
teen machinists, fifteen mill hands (of
whom ten were women and ten paint
erS. Among the other occupations
were one actor, one architect, one art
ist, one bartender. one butcher, one
coachman. one hotel keeper, one gar
dener and about a hundred other oc-
equations, ranging in number from
two to ten each.
These figures are believed to be elo-
quent of the hopeless drudgery and
worriment that befalls housewives
and domestic servants. The largest
number admitted Of any given age
was sixty, between rs and 80 years
the next number was fifty-seven, be-
tween 20 and % years, and the next
tifty-fve, between the ages of So and
40 years.
Largest number from any one coun-
ty is Ill, from Essex next comes Pas
sale, with ninety-one; then Bergen,
with eighty-two; Union, with sixty
six; Hudson, with ty-two, and Nor
ris, with forty-two. Atlantic has only
zone, Cumberland one, Huuterdon one
and Mercer one. Camden has two and
Middlesex two. Somerset has three.
Or the total number admitted 224
were married, 100 unmarried, sixty
/ five widowed and five divorced.