The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1909-01-28


labor Of the and necessary employment would furnished to
al classes Of persons who have become charge e State
Recommendations
(D HEATING PLANT The crying need of lie supply Hos
pta ior the Insane heating plant this osptal.s pca.
State institution the heating plant should be Installed Immediately
An naae person sick person and would think Of placing
Ia sick relative next red hot where tho temperature ao
would make well person III Netcs would they place them
bitter cold day in without fire.
Again think Of the torture bodies produced bv tc extreme
and sudden changes OF temperature With red sup
ply warmth building fifty feet long. containing eighteen cots 1T
stands to that those tho roasted while those
Ut distance freeze. al
Again think Of the danger incurred patients and attend
ants, where fifty insane people ayug and dcous urnc
loose long frame ward with attendants and two rcd hot
stoves ss
Il Is unfair to the management unfair to the helpless inmates
and unfair yourselves law makers Ts only Ne til
holocaust viii happen and cnzied public sentiment will break
fury your heads Wire netting should be placed around c
stoves and heating plant Immediately installed.
Cd ICE PLAINTIFF is essential and necessary in hospitals and
sick rooms must be used at the Oklahoma Hospital the Insane
in large quantities It great deal pay The wholesale
price for T. add this rail and wagon transportation ccn
miles Of sand and the doubled An ice plant would money
well life With population Of 600 besides the officers attend
ants and employees fyeton machine would be large
the demands during the months II steam heating
plant secured the engine and boiler could do double scrmac
ice in the summer and furnish Steam the winter There qcs
ton about the water supply
(s) WARDSFour more ward buildings should be constructed
IN closing LET that only words Of praise be said for
the management Of The Oklahoma Hospital for b Insane in The
opinion Of this department they doing al they with ie limited
facilities afforded them administer kindly and treatment Tic
unfortunate insane and they join pleading or immediate relief
from the terrible and unnecessary responsibility placed upon them
Their hands hands and the hands Of 500 helpless insane pcope
are upstrctched to you. erps. ''a#
OKLAHOMA NORMAN, oKLAHoMAe
This Department made inspection Of ne Oklahoma Hospital
for the Insane Norar Okla le ss Of October This ns
tuition controlled and conducted by the oklahoma sanarun Com
pauy. chartered BY the Territory Of Oklahoma.
The Eighth Territorial Legislature held 10 zoos and e ass
before Statehood appropriated the Of sSsooo or the fiscal
Of 0os and $5oooo for tc fiscal Year Of III Section II
c kept expense the Territory utay be kept ia t -t
asylum the expense o county sending patients there TIE Is
sal year ~ 1910 exprcd June 80 1907 AZ this time preparations
being made o Statehood and The contract continued with
the Oklahoma SanIariun Company Tor ic isar eNi c
First Legislature should take action
On Nov 10 1907 INC day that statehood declared aud
State naugu7a,cd were s88 pacrts hcng cared
for and treated in tho Nonnaa Institution at contract price pcr
mum, Of $500 per capita.
When the Oklahoma Hospital for tic insane supply ready
receive patients four hundred inmates transferred from the
Norman institution the Saie Institution This reduced the
Hospital population materially Bio large nmbe oi Indian
Territory boug back from Inc ST Louis Asylum end
the Norman Institution atos .hcsc patients There we're
other commitments during The GEAR that the time Of Inspection
thcre were as7 patients being treated and cared for
Tie Superintendent DR. A. 7 Clark Resident Pfyssca5i Or.
y W Griffin Consulting payseIars Babo "A D, and 4 p,
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