The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-03
KUHN FUk INSANE
Must Be Provided Say the SUI
perintendents of Hospitals.
New Hospital Will Be Recon-
mended by Board Of Control.
ENLARGE OLD ONES.
This Is One of the Plans Pro-
pesed.
Topeka Institution Now Has
Over 800 Patients.
ENLARGE OLD ONES.

The state board of control is assem-
bling material for the biennial report
for the year 1910. The heads of instl-
tutions have in most cases sent in their
reports to the board and these will be
used as a basis for the main report as
represented in the biennial. The sta
tistics relating to the big state hospi-
tails at Topeka and Osawatomie are of
peculiar interest. Both superintendent
Biddle and Superintendent Uhls urge
the need of either another hospital for
the insane or additional room prov1d-
ed at Topeka or Osawdtomie. There
are now 1929 patients at Osawatomle
and 1,547 at Topeka. The board OF
control will also likely urge the next
legislature to consider this matter ana
decide upon a location for the new
state hospital. The board will recon-
mend that the new institution be locat-
ed in the central part of the state.
Eight of the nine state charitable in
situations are now located within a
few miles of the eastern line of the
state and it is proposed to have the
tenth, If tenth there be. in the center
of the state if possible.
Supt T. c. Biddle'S report on the
Topeka hospital shows that there were
81 male and 443 female patients in
the institution June 80, 1909, and 97S
male and $50 female patients June 80,
1910. The payroll of employees at the
institution is $65,600. The total cost
of supporting the hospital for the year
was $173,90 and $35, 236 was collected
in fees. The per capita cost to the
taxpayers per patient per year was
$154.28. The largest number of pa
tients are admitted to the institution
between the age of 80 and 40 years.
During the year II patients were dis
charged as fully restored and Sc in
improved condition. Twenty per cent
of the cases in the institution are due
to senile dementia
DR.. Biddle asks for improvements
for the next year as follows:
Reception hospital. $4,000. Cot
tage for women, $4,000. Heating
plant, $4,000. New dairy barn, $15,-
900. Two nurses homes, $4,000.
DR.. Biddle also suggests that in
case new state hospital is provided
for that it be built and conducted on
the colony plan. He also urges that
an asylum be built for the care of the
criminal insane.
Supt. L. L. Uhls of Osawatomie,
also urges that more room be provid-
ed for the insane, either by additions
to Osawatomie or Topeka or by
building a new asylum in the central
part of the state. DIR. Uhls will ask
the next legislature for a psychopathic
hospital for the Osawatomie institI-
ton and for a nurses home and more
Land ana an Ice and cold storage plant
etc. The total of improvements he is
asking for is $4,000.
There were admitted to the Osawat-
omie hospital in 1909, ITS male and
1875 female patients. In 1910. 128
male and 81 female patients. On
July 30, 1910, there were 691 male
and 63S female patients in the hospit-
al. During the past year "A had been
discharged restored and IA improved.
The payroll of employees at the hos
pital is $6S,0O0. The per capita cost
to the tax payers of the state for care
or the patients per year is $141SO.
l.. M. Perry, superintendent of the
Parsons hospital for the care of eniIen-
tics, reports that the number of ma
tients continues to increase in about
the same proportions as in past years
There are 473 patients at Parsons. 295
males and 17S females. Thirty are out
on parole. During the past four years
S95 patients have been treated at this
institution. The cost per patient per
year to the taxpayers is $1S4 Superin-
tendent Perry needs a small hospital
for the acutely sick, a school building.
more room for the female patients and
an ice and cold storage plant He viii
ask the next legislature for 1872. 500 for
1912 and $685. 800 for 1918. He gives it as
his opinion that epileptics are as
class morose, irritable and often quar-
relsome. There is pressing need there
fore that they have proper care and
adequate quarters for successful treat