The Alaska daily empire., 1920-07-15

Alaska, have been committed 10
! Morningside Sanitariun at Portland.
| Ore, according to the annual report
OF that institution just received
by Gov Thomas Riggs, Jr., The adj
mission of these patients covers a
period of 161s years ending June 80.
! 1920
OF the total number admitted, 45.9
per cent have been discharged as
recovered and improved. The re-
coyeries for the fiscal year ending
of recoveries totaling 59.6 per cent
of those received during the same
period. The total number leaving
| the Sanitarius Is placed at ALB.
There are at present receiving treat
ment 206 persons. Two hundred
stitution.
total of SO patients were re-
ceived during the past fiscal year.
There were discharged during the
same period 81 while IS deaths are
reported. A gain of three is shown
| Ill lue vi hldShdn
at the hospital during the year OF
the 206 patients Row at Morning
| side. IT'S are men and 81 women,
sAt the end of the fiscal year 1919,
there were lis men and 2S women
receiving treatment.
II. C. /. Affects Hospital
Conditions at the Sanitarium are
described as follows:
During the fiscal year just ended.
the Sanitarium Company has. as Il
result of the ever increasing Fl. C. l..
been financially cramped. 1t has
been necessary to put off certain
things. Stocks and stores have been
depleted, but the time has arrived
when 1t is no longer possible to de-
lay large purchases which have been
put off from time to time. We have
just purchased fifteen hundred dol
lars worth of the one item-bedding
and we must still buy very large
quantity. The same applies to cloth
ing. We have waited as long as
we dare in the vain hope that prices
will drop. We can wait no longer
The slight advance recently granted
by Congress in our rates, from SAL %
to $4,000 per patient per month, is
as shown by a comparison with pure
ly maintenance charge of some Of the
largest similar institutions in this
country, wholly inadequate. and is
already largely consumed for new
| %,
ever, as we have been for the la5t
years, that prices will soon drop
though the latest press reports, ant
reports from Washington, d. c.. show
to date, except in few minor ex
ceptions, where commodities have
been temporarily reduced to stimr
late sales, and reduce stocks, prices
still cling desperately to the higl
levels. Even these temporary de
clines have failed to reach Portland
Under these trying conditions, W,
have strained every point to contin
ually advance the service, for a bust
ness enterprise or institution must
under no condition, remain station
airy. 1t must either improve, or 0
its own weight go backward. Morn
ingside Hospital and the resultin;
conditions under which the legal,
adjudged insane of Alaska are caret
for, have improved, and we are pleas
ed with this opportunity of mention
ing some of the more salient point
OF which we speak.
. Seek New Treatments
The Sanitarlum company is a
, all times seeking new ideas ana in
itiating additions and Improvement
that we may better care for on
patients. During the fiscal yea
Just ended this work has Increase
; in increasing proportions, and new
and improved and more pleasant ia
cilities have been added, for tn
better care and happy contentmen
of our patients
i Very lately experiments have beer
conducted in Eastern clinics will
music, and the result, most nenefi
, cial in many cases. particularly S,
. types, have been discussed widel,
in medical and lay journals. More
ingside was quick to grasp this, tn
latest theory, in additional care 0
mental cases. After numerous con
ferences with one of the local elec
trio stores, we secured their services
In installing a most ingenious de
vice. whereby. from a central sending
station, music is electrically trans
mitted to every building and ever,
ward Of the institution. Our practi
cal application to an extent bear.
out the theory of the clinics as t.
the soothing and curative effects O.
music. But curative or not, our daily
concerts are today an added source
of enjoyment and a pleasant moment
of diversion to the patients.
/ Grounds Beautified
Realizing the importance of a
pleasant environment the hospital
| grounds have been greatly beautified
| with the addition of lawns, flowers
and ornamental shrubs and trees
In addition a tract of the hospital
| ground fronting the Columbia River
Highway has been set aside as a