The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-04-06
MUCH NEED FOR ENLARGEMENT
Thirty-Thfrd annual Report shows
state Hospital To Be increasing. f

/ the state h0SplGal at motifs ElalnS
just received shows that the institu
tion is crowded to its utmost capacity
and additional accommodations are
necessary, or other provisions must
be made for the insane.
The report Of the board of managers
shows that twelve regular, two special
and six committee meetings have been
held during the year, 154 individual
visits.
The managers ask to he relieved OF
the duty and responsibility of visiting
the county hospitals; report that the
help has been placed to considerable
extent under civil service rules I; as the
hospital is overcrowded recommend
that arrangements be made to care
! for the criminal insane elsewhere and
that home for the male nurses be
provided /; recommend that two addi-
tional physicians be allowed and that
the salaries of the medical staff be in
creased and that the salaries OF the
secretary and treasurer be increased
from five hundred to one Thousand dol
lars. The most urgent needs are the
enlargement of the daily barn, a new
kitchen building, and new system for
flushing urinals.
The report of Fl. P. Lindabury shows
the receipts and disbursements for the
fiscal year to be 1896, ,203. 20.
From the report of the medical di-
rector, DR.. B. d. Evans, we quote;
"On October 3lst, 1908, this institu-
tion had been receiving patients for
Ithirty-two years, two months and thir-
teen days. During this period S,953
persons were admitted for care and
treatment, and 2.l73 were discharged
recovered, showing that more than
twenty-four per cent. of all under
TREATMENT were restored to me Il
health.
"a CONCISE review of the statistical
tables appended gives good general
idea of the results obtained during
the year. At the end of the hospital
year there were in the institution 1,943
patients; 993 of whom were men and
$50 women. The whole number ad-
mitted during the year was 495 271
men and 224 women, which is the
greatest number admitted during any
Iyear since the opening of the hospital
i "The highest census was reached~on
4 August 18th, and again on August
12Oth, when there we're 1856 pat
4 tents under treatment. OF the l.
| 943 remaining at the end of the year,
Il 1854 were INDECENT, 179 were private
or pay patients, II were convicus and
80 criminals. The 495 admissions con-
sisted of 241 classified as county iadi-
gent, 100 as state INDECENT and ninety
four as pay patients.
1.-The number of patients Of foreign
birth admitted was l82, or nearly thir-
/ ty-seven per cent. of the whole num-
Der admitted. That such a large per-
lcentage of those admitted were of for
eign birth is worthy of the consider
alton OF students of statistics, and of
1 all who are interested in the problem
involved in the increase of the states
insane population.
1T is highly gratifying to report the
Irecovery of 26. % per cent. of the num-
Der OF patients admitted during the
past year, which is in excess of the
percentage of recOveries for the pre-
vious year.
| "The occupation of insane patients
previous to admission is thought by
many to play an important part in the
causation of their mental alteration.
OF the number admitted during the
past year 100 were housemaids and do
metics, which is thirty per cent. of
the total admissions. This is inter
esting, but not in harmonySwith the
contention of numerous statiscians.
During the year 157 patients died.
This is decrease in the rate, since in
the preceding years 1T deaths oc-
Cured with the population l23 less.
Fhe death rate for the year, based up
on the total number under treatment
was GIT per cent, as contrasted with
S.06 per cent. for the year previous.
"There were at the close Of this hos
pital year seventy one .convictS and
thirty-nine insane criminals on the
wards of the hospital. No citizen of
the state wants his sick relatives or
friends subjected to the associations
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