The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1915-02-03

great many things especially inter-
esting and attractive to women would
be carried on In this building.
Ideal Nurse Home.
"The Dix cottage. which is a frame
building, and is now used for the con-
valescent women, would make an
ideal nurses home. At the present
time there is practically no satisfac-
tory accommodations for the nurses,
some of them sleeping in the wards
with the patients. while others have
rooms on the top floor of the new
building, which is an attic that has
been converted into sleeping quarters.
So much for the general arrangement
of the present buildings
Kitchens and Dining ROOius Unsatis-
factory.
I'm addition to the improvements
already suggested. there should be
erected central kitchen and congre-
gate dining rooms. The present sys-
tenn OF numerous kitchens and dining
rooms is unsatisfactory in every way;
and there should be an uptodate laun-
dry. The present building could be
utilized by enlarging 1t somewhat and
installing modern equipment. A CEN
trail heating plant would also be nee
essary, and this would probably be
the most expensive item in the entire
plan OF reconstruction.
"A number of small buildings about
the place would naturally be done
away with in the general cleanup. A
new ice house. new baker, refrig-
Grating plant, etc. will all be included
In the plans for the central Kitchen"
"Stafe Park CGlOny.,
According to the report by A. p.
| Herring, NJ. D., under the present
plans colony for the negro insane OF
both sexes would be established at
State Park. There is building at this
place which is now occupied by less
than 100 negro women.
None Of the work of this building"
says the report, was done by the
labor of patients Under our proposed
plan at Toast hundred able bodied
| negro male patients would be trans
ferred to State Park and housed in the
small wooden building now on the
place. These patients would be uti-
lized in doing all of the general labor,
such as excavating, clearing the land,
| unloading cars, mixing cemsnt etc.
This would save the State a great deal
OF money and by erecting permanent
and comparatively inexpensive build
ing all OF the negro patients could be
housed In the near future, and at a
comparatively small COST would
say within s400 bed. This, to my
mind, Is one cf the most important
things connected with the entire plan
OF reorganization.
THE negroes could be used for
farming purposes, and there is no rea-
son why most ofothe produce used in
the hospital could not be produced on
this farm by the patients labor. By
occupying the negroes in this manner
restraint could be absolutely abolish
ed; the patients would be happier and
more contented; there would be a
large number of recoveries; and at
the same time they would become a
valuable asset, to the .institution and
| the State.
I'm addition, to the colony for the
negroes there could be erected at
State Park a building for the idiotic
and imbecile children, who are now
living with the patients in the State
hospital. The Importance of segregat-
ing the imbecile and feeble1ninded
children from the adults has never
been questioned There should also
be constructed at State Park a sep
| arate building for cases of tubercu-
losis and pellagra. There is splen-
did opportunity, both at the present
hospital and at Stale Park, to deveiop
farm colonies"