The gold leaf., 1910-09-15

'AOA SoAAlOAi - olCdt SI-
dertaking Well and Success
fully Performed = Pleasant
Reference to Mr.. Caldwell,
the States Foremost and
Best Beloved Editor.
We find the following reprinted in
the Thomasville Charity and Child
ren. 1t was published originally in
the Charlotte Observer, but we did
not see the article in that paper and
do not know in what form it appear
ed-who the writer is. The author
ship, however, is mere incident, the
article itself is what concerns the
reader:
Going from the Kanuga Lake Club
near Hendersonville to Switzerland
inn near Mount Mitchell station on
the Clinchfield road | took occasion
to go by the State hospital to pay a
little visit to Mr.. Caldwell. We talked
much and OF many things and the
visit was an exceedingly pleasant one
for me certainly and for US both |
think.
While Mr. Caldwell and | chatted
my sister, who was with me, went off
with Mrs. McCampbell and looked
over some of the domestic features of
the big institution She has told me
since she left that the kitchen and all
its appointments were apparently
perfect and certainly immaculate.
The State hospital now has more
than l 900 patients and the care Of
these must be big undertaking. 1t
can only be done by a system we'll
worked out and we'll executed. We
have looked over some kitchens in
the suburbs of Boston and were de-
lighted with the Yankee cleanliness
and cOnveniences but none surpassed
the cleanliness and arrangements at
the hospital. In addition to the visit
to Mr.. Caldwell I was very glad to
have the opportunity to ask Dr.
John McCampbell show me esomething
OF the work at the institution. The
first striking feature is the magnitude
of the building and the grounds.
About 60 to rs years ago, perhaps
longer, Miss Dorothy Dix gave her
time without stint and practically
consecrated her life to the ameliora-
tion OF the condition of the sick and
unfortunate. She worked at her own
expense and addressed many Legisla-
lures in the interest of those un-
fortunate sick who were inadequately
cared for. Surely it would do Miss
Dix's heart good i she could see the
magnificent institution which the
State, through it's appointed trustees
and their officers has built and is
operating. There are those who
think that Mr.. Caldwell schiefest
pride is The Observer. As the prod
uct of bis work and intellect his
pride in the paper is just and
modest. But for himself and his
associate trustees and along with
DR.. Murphy, former superintendent,
and DR.. John McCampbell, pres
ent superintendent, | am sure that
for himself and these others, Mr..
Caldwells first affection and pride is
for this great and beneficent institu-
tion OF the State, of whose board he
is chairman. Then after that he loves
The Observer and those who worked
with him to make it.
One OF the features which partic-
ularly interested me was the new
colony at the hospital A colony is
a sort OF country settlement, farm
as it were. Away from the main
buildings about mile or more are
three brick buildings for 100 selected
patients who are able to do more or
less farm work. They raise corn,
vegetables, and other crops suitable
to the soil and climate. This helps
to reduce the cost of the operations
OF the institution, because colonies
are largely self-supportiDg.
Another economic feature is the
nurses home The moving of GO
nurses to this new home made room
in the hospital proper for 100 pa
tients. In the home the nurses have a
reading room and welfare facilities
When the nurses are off duty they
can go to this home and really be off
duty.
DR.. McCampbell spoke OF further
improvements and economies he
hoped to accomplish. He has in
mind psychopatlc laboratory and
through which all patients may be
passed when they enter the institu-
ton. He would want the best ap-
pliances and facilities for aiding in
proper diagnosis OF each case. He
would have in this special entrance
hospital hydro-therapeutic baths and
he would keep each new-enteriDg pa
tient in some cases one day, in other
cases he would watch and treat cases
for six months before passing them
into their proper places in the institu-
tion. Some cases would be probably
cured in this diagnosis laboratory
hospital and all cases would be mucii
better understood by such a full and
scientific and psychic examination.
| have probably not nearly properly
expressed here what DR.. McCampbell
expressed to me, but the subject in
terestsd me as showing something Of
the dergree of advancement of the
plans OF the trustees and the superin
tendent.
Greensboro News says zone way to
fix q crab is to devil him to DEATH
But mind, if you try it on him at sup
per, that he don't devil you between