The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-02-04
Six Hundred Thousand Dollars
For the State Care of the
Insane

The bill providing in detail for the care
Of the dependent Insane BY the State.
which has been introduced in the House
by DR. Ashby. viii be followed bv a bill
creating State loan tor 500. COO At
the present time the building OF the
two State notwithstanding Grove and
Springheld-are about full and addi-
uonal buildings will be required Ii is
proposed for the State to borrow $500
900 to provide those buildings and also
to buy a farm somewhere in Southern
Maryland upon which TO erect a building
for the colored insane The labor OF
these poor, unfortunate people is to be
utilized as far as possible in the cree
ton Of their buildings and afterwards
for the cultivation Of their farms for the
production of the food which they con-
sumo. There are a considerable number
OF Colored inmates in Spring Grove, and
the removal of these will make place for
a number OF whites Each one Of the
three State insane asylums will have
farm upon which to employ those of the
inmates who are able to work, and this
IS considered most advantageous to their
condition.
The act of 1908 requires the State
LunaCy Commission 10 remove the de-
pendent insane from county to State in
Sttutions after January ], 1911 DIR.
Ashby's bill will snpersede that act.
1t gives increased authority to the Lun-
acy Commission and repeats and re-
enacts Sections Il TO p, inclusive and
Section 81 Of Article SO of the Code
The following is the section relating
to the removal from county to State insti-
tutions
The Lunacy Commission, whenever
! It shall determine that any patient cared
for at public expense and confined in
any private or corporate institution or
asylum, or in any almshouse, who is
/ violent and whose case is acute. and
\ said commission shall be of the opinion
after thorough investigation that said
/ patient can be better cared for in a State
J hospital, with better hopes of recovery,
/ II may remove said patient to the proper
! State hospital at the expense of the
7 county wherein the patient was found at
/ that time. And whenever said commits
/ sion shall find any one in a State hoSpi-
! tai whose condition shall have become
/ chronic or who is likely TO do as well in
county asylum as in State hospital
it NAV order the county to which the
maintenance of said patient is charge
able to remove him or her to some
county asylum which shall have com
piled with the rules of said commission
/ relative to the keeping of insane patients,
/ butin no case shall a patient to State
I h sptal be thus transferred except upon
the written consent Of his or her imme-
diate relatives. 1t shall be unlawful to
/ convey anv woman patient to any in
stitution, asylum. hospital home or re-
treat for the insane, or to transfer any
woman patient from or to any such
place, except such woman patient be
! accompanied by some relative, friend or
nurse of the same sex. This shall not
I apply to any woman patient accompa-
MED by her father, husband or adult
/ brother or son.
Section 3SB requires the Lunacy Com
mission TO fix the amount to be paid by a
/ county for the care Of its dependent
/ insane in the State hospitals which
amount shall not exceed 500 per annum
for each patient. This sum shall be a
/ charge against the county.