The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-01-01

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At 1880 the male patients who do
farm work and milking, leave the
buildings. Those who remain help in
housework, bed making, sweeping and
busting, which is completed by to
$3.50 a. m. Both male and female pa.
tients engage in this house work.
Dinner is at 1880 a. m, supper at
$50 and bed time at S p. IN.
When not otherwise engaged pa.
tants are encouraged to employ them
selves in useful work, men in such
things as basket weaving, women in
embroidery and rug making
Accompanied by attendants, the pa.
tients go walking during fair weather
In summer they sit outside mornings
and afternoons, but always with at.
PENDANTS in charge
There is dancing for patients every
Friday evening in autumn, winter and
spring.
on Sunday afternoons there are
chapel services, conducted by Norfolk
clergymen.
Non-Restrant System.
The practice of allowing patients at
the Norfolk hospital as much freedom
of action as is consistant with safety,
is modified form of the non.re-
straint system.
If cheerful surroundings, a varied
wholesome and nourishing dietary and
kindly treatment, in conjunction with
careful medical attention, can accom-.
plish restoration of reason, then it |
can be accomplished at the Norfolk
hospital, whose object is more the
betterment and cure of insane pa
tients than mere confinement.
Recently a young woman from the
northern part of the state was re-
ceived. She was suffering from acute
insanity and manaCal eX-
element She was put in bed on her
arrival where she was examined by
one of the medical staff He found
that her mental condition depended
on her physical condition, and pre-
scribed treatment along the latter
line. Measures were at once taken to
improve the womans strength and
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weeks, except by use of opiates, the
prolonged use of which are poisonous
to the system. These were withdrawn
and sleep was produced by natural
includ- .
ed system of baths and cool packs, /,
This treatment Is restful to disordered
nerves. Equal attention was given to
the woman's diet She was fed from
twelve to fifteen eggs daily also milk
and other forms of easily absorbed
food. The woman is now rapidly re-
gaining her strength and recovering
her normal mind.
These cures vi patients, or the bet
terments of their condition, could not
be accomplished if DR.. Young did not
have the cooperation of an efficient
medical staff and an efficient corps of
nurses and attendants.
There are thirty nurses and attend
ants, of whom eighteen are women.
Some of the male patients are in
charge of women.
Picturesque surroundings have
beneficial effect on patients. The
grounds at the Norfolk hospital will
be much beautified when the present
scheme of landscaping is completed |
Driveways will be extended and the
grounds parked on plans made by
Prof. COrbet of the Department Of
Agriculture, Washington. A thousand
trees will be planted next spring and
two thousand Towering shrubs set out. .
Driveways will be eXcavated to the
depth of twelve and fourteen inches
to two feet. The first course will be
brick-debris from the old burned
building. On this clay will be tamped.
The top dressing will be of cinders,
All this landscaping will be done by
patients and without cost to the state. .
In time the driyeways will be cement
curbed the bulk of which work will
be done by the patients
Statistical.
The coal contract for this season
called for 1000 tons of slack at $40
per ton
The central heating plant has
capacity of 800 horse power. One of
the boilers will be replaced next year
with one of $50 horsepower capacity.
For the present engine of 80 horse
power capacity. a Corliss engine of
Is horse power will be substituted
next year.
The water supply at the Norfolk
hospital is obtained from bored we'll
llS feet deep to gravel.
An appropriation will be asked of
the coming Legislature for an icing
plant.
The hospital dairy herd numbers
twenty-five COWS, all free from tuber-
Culosis, as a recent test by a govern
ment inspector showed.
A Wholesome Diet.
Efforts are being mace at the Nor
folk hospital to give patients whole
some and varied diet. In the summer
time an abundance of vegetables are
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