, 1908-01-18

Building Inspector was requested to draw DIP
the necessary estimates.
According to these estimates-which will be
laid on the Councils table. in originali.-the
building for the lunatics will be erected on
the ground belonging to the Colonial Trea-
sury, Immediately west of the former Militia
ry Hospital. It will be divided in two de-
partments, one for men and one for women,
with 6 cells in each"
A detailed statement follows, and the
Remarks conclude thus
"For said amount a building worthy of the
Community can be erected, and this draft
is therefore recommended to the favour
able consideration of the Colonial Council"
1t is gratifying to see that this matter of
housing and caring for the unfortunate per-
Sons who are not able to take care of them
selves is at last seriously taken up in st.
Thomas. Here in st. Croix we can also say
that the rooms used for such patients can
not meet the demands of the present age;
this has been long recognized, but the want
of means has always stood in the way of
Improvement. The same has hitherto been
the case in st. Thomas, and it is pleasant
to read that the state of things there has
now improved so much in these respects as
to "warrant the necessary expenditure"
In the discussion on the Draft the LIST
Crown Member (Dr. Mortensen) recon-
meQ10O IL IN the 1OllOW1nR WOrQS
HE hoped that it would not be found
necessary to say many words in %reccommen4
of the Bill; he would only add that the
present situation of the insane inmates of
the Hospital was indeed scandalous, and
was especially so in the eyes of medical men
and other visitors from abroad who very
often called there to see the Hospital. To
all the other patients, the insanes were a
constant source of unrest and excitement,
and it had for q long time been our ardent
desire to have them removed and located at
some distance from the Hospital proper"
The End Member for st. Thomas tMr.
Schroder) recommended that the question
be settled at once, which after d few remarks
from other members was agreed to, and the
Draft was passed TO End discussion, and was
unanimously, adopted.
The carrying through Of this important
reform in st. Thomas makes US hope that
our day too will come. If the "worms'
will only leave us a fair amount of the cotton
now coming to perfection in our fine fields
of plants we may perhaps have some chance
of the Government being able to say also
about our sad rooms at Richmond, that 'the
economical condition OF the community
seems to warrant the necessary expenditure"
TO provide q suitable building and to give
the whole treatment of the un%fortunates a
CQdTHCGeE u WulCn we ASCN III NOhSOA Avn
ashamed.
The other money Bill above referred to
proposes to spend 10000 francs on fthe
erection of an open Market booth in Casimir
square with ~cisteIn". The Remarks to this
draft read as follows
"Ip January month a. C. it was recommend
ed by the Street Commission that the neces-
sary means should be granted from the
Colonial Treasury for the erection Of Mark
ct booths in Casimir Square, SO that the sale
on the Square of green provisions should
not be impeded by the deteriorating infu-
ence from sun and rain on the provisions
for sale.
Government could agree with the plan,
but thought however that the accomplish
ment thereof should be postponed until the
financial situation of the Community would
warrant the expenditure.
Gas this now seems to be the case, the
necessary draft of extra Moneybil is hereby
laid before the Council,
at is remarked that the Street Commits
sion's original project had two alternatives;
a. Market booths with closed divisions
calculated at Fir. 5000, and
b. q large open shed for booths, calculated
at Fir. 5000.
s1rovornment salac+ed the last proiect as