The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-08-05
STATE HOSPITAL MEETING
PROBLEM OF STATES WARDS
superintendent Anderson Aggressive and Progress
sve Manager of The Institution = What Many of
The Inmates Do and How They Live Sunny Lives
Some Features of The Hospitals Work

there every year from the farm. In
time larger scale cattle raising and
sheep and hog growir., Will be prac-
ticed and the cost of consumption still
rurther reduced.
The dairy looks more like a college
building than a cattle house. 1t is
ScrupulOusly clean, built for eternity
and removed from those foreign enc
mics that make milk the water Of
life or skull and crossbones The
dairy is one Of the institutions prides.
There are sixty real cows there and
all produce. Butter is manufactured
on the ground and everything is
fresh.
Aside from the interest that at
taches to the interior working Of
state hospital, there is always popu-
lar concern about the material i'm
prOVement that goes on. Treatment
| is as old as the hills in almost every
| disease of man, but there is progress
| sion at the hospital just as there is
| in morals in society in politics.
No Smoke Hereafter.
| There is to be no smoke hereafter
The time has reference to the after
| life Of the institution, not to the in
| mates.
! While the big smokestack. which
isn't an unlovely ornament, is going
! to stand. it's days Of service are num-
| bered. Recently Superintendent An
dersOn has persuaded his board to
| put in four StOkerS to consume the
smoke In the summer when the air
is hot and light, smoke doesn't worry
the patients greatly, but the colder
months throw it into the buildings.
The StOkers will not only deyour
the smoke at the furnace, but they
| will reduce the cost of fuel, it is de-
clared, and the smoke nuisance is
hot TOD &c 10
stokers will be an economy, though
their installation will cost about 49,.
500.
Fire Protection.
Chief Sherwood Brockweu Of the
fire department. has made a Thorough
inspection Of the Hospital recently
the best one Superintendent Ander-
m says. that has yet been made
This will be maintained and such
things on the interior as add to the
danger and disaster of fire, will be
removed. The buildings are provided
with fire escapes and in an ordinary
blaze. the institution is able to pro
| vide it's own weapons of defense. l.
has one big reservoir in the open an6
another covered over with flowers ant
growing plants, every foot of soil be-
ing used.
The women take interest in growing
flowers and in due time the hOspita
d
, the sOuthside. 1t now has Its fields
garden, hot house and workshops. 1t
laundry is filled with industrious in
mates and nowhere in North CarOlin:
is better work done than in the hospi
, tai laundry. Not only does the inst1
tuition find employment for It's wor
} ried inmates. but it finds many Splen
{ did young women who go there t
I seek good Work.
! 1t provides its own workshop. ma
E it's own engineer, plumbers and me
|. chanics who are able to repair al
t most anything that goes wrong IN tn
E | working of the big plant. And wit
1 these many adjuncts the States ex
t pense in maintaining the home for 1t
unfortunates. is greatly lessened.
d The People Interesting.
e The people are not uninteresting.
] one thinks he goes into an institutiO
n where there is hourly Waiiine anon
t those struggling with imaginary dey
: lis, he finds himself let down whe
( he goes through. 1t isn't a home c
/. the violent, the billiards. idiots an
3. the criminal, solely. The institution
{ almost like a well-ordered school wit
q the superintendent serving as pres
RI | dent, yet playing the schooInaSte
every day.
No names are going to be Gale
j but there is one old man who recitt
Y Greek and Latin poems and puts
81 pretty an infection upon the music;
D. Greek as any scholar in the republi
u He knows Vergil and Homer almo
It by heart aud Tennyson and Brownlr
= tell him of the world which noboo
X ever sees. He is an artist, but he
% as hopelessly insane. He has been :
is since he was boy. a blow on II
: head driving out his reason but pr
d serving the beauty Of his YOUTH
re thoughts.
d (Continued on Page Twelve.)