The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1911-09-22
BIG PLANT PLANNED
FOR STATE HOSPITAL
20 CARE FOR INSANE IS MOST M
PORTANT PART.
Cooking Far ahead For States Needs.
Commission Laying Ground
work.

Importance, irrl s?ectiEe OF cosc, the
State Hospital commission has il
charge one Of the most Important un-
Ser,as kings in which South Carolina is
now engaged. Secretary Z. H. AUll OF
NewDerry. was asked for a statement
as 10 what had been done by the new
commission. Secretary Aull said:
"The State Hospital commission
created by act OF the legislature for
the purpose OF developing an entirely
new plant and with the view of event
ually moving the entire hospital for
the insane to the new location, has
been moving slowly with its work and
has not given out for publication very
much that has been done. I feel that
the people of the State are entitled to
know what is being done by the COM
mission. AS I conceive it, it is one of
the most important works that is be-
ing undertaken by the State of South
NCarolina at this time.
''The commission was established at
the session of the legislature in 1910,
and an appropriation of 100000 was
made. Of this appropriation, the COM
mission, during 1910, spent in round
numbers $4,000 in the purchase Of
land, acquiring about 1900 to 1000
acres on the Southern railway, begin
ming at point six miles from Colum-
bia and extending along the railway
about three miles. It is an ideal site for
an institution Of this character, and
do not believe better or more suit
able location could have been found in
South Carolina.
cat the session of the legislature in
1911, the commission was continued
and al additional appropriation of
100000 was made for the purpose of
erecting buildings and otherwise de-
veloping the plant. The new commis-
sion has found it necessary to pur-
chase additional lands and about $8,-
900 has been expended for that pur-
pose.
r. The Water Problem.
zone of the first problems to con-
front the commission was to secure an
adequate supply Of water. There are
several streams on the place and
Crane creek, q much larger stream, is
very near to the lands Of the State,
but the commission was of the opinion
that if water could be secured by sink
sng a deep well, it would furnish
much, ,purer supply and in the end be
more economical. One of the first
acts of the new commission was to
contract for the sinking of this deep
well. There has been considerable de-
lay and some trouble in the sinking
of the we'll but the contractor now
claims that at a deptl of $50 feet he
has an abundant supply Of good, pure
water. The supply will be tested dur
ing the present week.
* .@.As to the plan of the buildings, the
commission visited a number of mod
ern institutions in the North and East
that are constructed On the general
plan upon which it is proposed to con-
struct the present hospital. The COL
ony plan IS the one generally adopted,
the prison idea being an exploded one
for the care of the insane. 1t is de-
sired to lay out a plan that will in
clude a colony for the tubercular pa
i tfen1s, a colony for the pellagra pa
:. tients, alarm colony and colony for
!. the acute, and a colony for the idiotic
and imbecile. Having a large acreage
:, of land, this will be accomplished
: without trouble and without crowd
>: sng, of course. It will take number
s4of years to complete the institution
gons the commission felt that the plans
should be made and worked out look
. ing to the future, and for that reason
the work. has been more slowly car
ried on than it would otherwise have
been. Plans have to be made for wat
er supply and sewage and all the 9th
er necessary equipments for an instl
tuition of this kind and the commission
was Of the opinion that it would b
better to go slow than to hurry to-
much and probably make mistakes
With this in view, the commission de
cided that it would be economy to EN-
ploy a landscape architect, who, coul
be Of assistance in locating the c,loI
les, the buildings for the colonies. an