The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1915-02-11

ments of modern hospital; and, thai
with all of these handicaps, it is
hardly to be expected that modern
care and treatment for the insane
can be secured. So that l wish tC
, make it perfectly plain that we
should not criticise those who are
in immediate attendance of these
patients, but that, on the other hand
they should be given credit for doing
as much as they do under the un-
surmountable difficulties. The over
crowding of the wards and lack of
attendants and need of sufficient
money are all contributing factors
in the present state of affairs.
Discusses Plans.
Discussing the plan for reorgani-
zation of the State Hospital for the
Insane, A. P. Herring, II. D., Cover
nor Manning's efficiency expert, says
that he has ever kept in mind the
fact that, first of all, it must be prac-
tical and at the same time sufficient
ly adequate and elastic to meet all
future requirements, and in the sec
ond place it should be within reason
able financial limits. DR.. Herring
first considers the general plan of
arrangement of the buildings and the
distribution of the patients. The
internal organization is included un-
der separate head.
The report declares that the most
evident steps at the present time is
to remove all of the negro insane,
the idiots and imbeciles, the tuber-
culocus and pellagrous patients to
State Park. He says by doing this
that there will be plenty of room for
the white insane at the old Asylum
for many years to come. I'm fact, "
he says, "by developing the farm
colony idea there will never be the
overcrowding of these buildings that
exists at the present time.
First Thing Necessary.
THE first thing that is absolutely
necessary" says the report, lin a
hospital for the insane is psyche
pathic reception hospital building.
This is the active medical centre
which controls and stimulates the
life of the entire institution. Here
the patients who enter the hospital
are first received, thoroughly exam
ined, and, if need be, detained for
treatment. All patients who are ac-
tually disturbed receive in this build
ing hydro-therapeutic treatment and
any other treatment Indicated; in
other words, they are treated as sick
individuals. In this building are al
so located laboratories, examining
rooms, operating rooms and every
facility needed for the proper treat
ment of the mentally sick. In this
! i
that an out-patient department be
inaugurated in this building for the
purpose of doing any important work
in preventive psychiatry. The close
proximity Of the hospital to the city
renders it especially adaptable for
this new field of medicine. The
building which could be used for this
purpose is the old asylum building,
: the walls of which are substantially
constructed and the general outline
Of the building we'll adapted for this
! purpose.
Internal Arrangement.
The internal arrangement will, of
course, be changed and practically an
entire new interior installed. The
! details concerning the arrangement
of the interior of this building will
! have to be taken up later with an
architect. We would make provision
! for hundred patients, none Of whom
would remain in this building for
any great length of time. Leaving
this building for the present, We will
consider next the central building,
and this description will apply to
both wings of this building.
mo very radical changes need be
made in these buildings so far as
their general arrangement is con-
! cerned. Of course, nearly all of the
! buildings throughout the entire in
stitution require new floors and an
entire new sanitary equipment and
new heating. A number of small
rooms would be thrown into one
large room. Attractive day rooms
and dormitories would result from
abolishing a large number of cells
and small rooms.
Business Office.
"The rearrangement of the busi-
ness office in the central portion of
this building will also be necessary.
THE Parker building, which is