The Washington herald., 1913-10-29
ST. ELIzABETH'S
ASKS 100000
Necessary Additions to Gov
ernment Hospital Would.
Cost Half Million.
ADJOINING LAND NEEDED
Board Says Increasing Value Of Prop
erty Makes 1t Advisable for Con-
gress to Act at Once.

So rapidly is the patient enrolment OF
the Government Hospital for the Insane
Increasing that the acquisition of addi-
tionai land to permit the expansion of
the institution is imperative. according
20 the annual report of.the asylum, made
10 the Secretary o. the Interior yester-
ffw
Recommendation that appropriations
II nearly $4,000 be made by Congress
raI the erection of buildings needed be-
"a Sc of the increased enrolment is A
irature Of the report. The number of
De tients admitted to the institution dur
Ia. the year, says the report. was the
70 gest in its history, with one excep-
fiHn. -
fatt il this land is to be acquired for
The extension Of the institutions s
rounds says the report, lit should be
SlIrchzsed at the earliest date. The
T1igkborhood of the hospital is becom-
ias more and more thickly settled as
he years go by, and the price of land
progressively is increasing. Every year
tHat an opportunity to secure additional
aud is put OF means that more money
|ill have to be paid for that land
New Stan Quarters.
New stan quarters for the medical
authorities, other officials and their fami-
lies are needed. at an estimated. cost OF
s25.0Oa. Crowding in the ward for epilep-
tics makes the need OF a new epileptic
colony" urgent The cost OF the build
ing for this purpose is estimated at
il60.OeO
Recommendations Tor the purchase of
and for a farm colony, where the
chronic, custodial. and physically well
patients can work, needs an appropria-
tion of Se4,I55. For a fence tossurround
the hospital grounds 10 guard against
the escape of patients a sum of $4,000 is
asked.
"A new building for women patients
Will be needed in the very near future"
says the report. at is highly desirable
or the extension of the female portion
If the hospital that the land Immediately
adjoining the reservation at the south
and on the west side OF Nichols Avenue
should be acquired. This is practically
the only direction in which the extension
IF the female part OF the institution can
tSke place. The cost of land and build
ing would approximate $1,000
OF the S21 deaths which occurred at the
institution, during the fiscal year, 100 died
ot pulmonary tuberculosis, just seven
less than succumbed to the disease last
year.
There was admitted to the institution
during the year 74s patients. an increas.
# thirteen over the previous year, this
icing the largest number of admissions
ir the history OF the institution with one
exception. So
Nunber of Patients Increased.
The total number of patients treated
Surfing the year was 1854, an increase of
'UTty-nire over the previous year. The
aumber of discharges during the year iIi-
;iuding deaths, was S56, a decrease of
fCTty-one, the decrease in the number
If deaths, despite the population, being
eleven.
The daily average population was
?.aJ0.6G. as against 2,S7l.75 of the previous
year. an increase of 1881" says the re-
port. (which fulfills the prophecy made
in the last annual report that the in
crease in the population of the hospital
might be expected TO be more rapid from
that time on. This had been the actual
TACT during the past fiscal year.
From the District during the year
rinety-twO patients were admitted to the
institution, making 2,ss4 District insanS
persons that the asylum has received
since 1866.