The Cordova daily times., 1920-07-23
MANY PATIENTS
 FROM ALASKA TO ASYLUM

A1dSkd, nave Uoeu COIHluIlIou to Morningside Sanitarium at Portland, Ore, according to the annual report of that institution just received by Gov. Thomas Riggs, Jr. The admis- sion of these patients covers per iod of 16k years ending June 30, 1920.
 Of the total number admitted 45.9 per cent have been discharged as re- covered and improved The recov- cries for the fiscal year ending June 30 shows a higher percentage of re- coveries totaling 5s.6 per cent of those received during the same per Iod The total number leaving the Sanitarium is placed at 423. There are at present receiving treatment 206 persons. Two hundred and seven teen have died in the institution.
 A total of 52 patients were re- ceived during the past fiscal year. There were discharged during this same period 31, while IS deaths are reported. A gain of three is shown in the number of Alaskan patients at the hospital during the year. Of the 206 patients now at Morningside, 175 are men and 31 are women, all receiving treatment.
 H. c. L. AFFECTS HOSPITAL
 Conditions at the Sanitarium are described as follows:
 During the fiscal year just ended, the Sanitarium Company has as a re- suit of the ever increasing H. c. L. been financially cramped. It has been necessary to put off certain things. Stocks and stores have been depleted, but the time has arrived when it is no longer possible to delay large pur- chases which have been put off from time to time. We have just purchased fifteen hundred dollars worth of the one item-bedding, and we must still buy very large quantity. The same applies to clothing. We have waited as long as we dare in the vain hope that prices will drop. We can wait no longer. The slight advance recent Iy granted by congress in our rates, from $41.25 to $45.00 per patient per month, is, as shown by comparison with purely maintenance charge of some of the largest institutions in tEis country wholly inadequate, and plies. We are still hopeful, however, as we have been for the last few years past. that prices will soon drop though the latest press reports from Washington, D.. C., show to date, ex- cept in few minor exceptions, where commodities have been temporarily reducd to stimulate sales, and reduce stocks, prices still cling desperately to the high levels. Even these tenn porary declines have failed to reach Portland. @
 Under these trying conditions, we have strained every point to contin ually advance the service, for busi- ness enterprise or institution must, under no conditions, remain station ary. It must either improve, or of it's own weight go backward. Morn ingside hospital and the resulting con- ditions under which the legally ad- judged insane of Alaska are cared for, have improved, and we are pleas ed with this opportunity of mention ing some of the more salient points of which we speak
 SEEK NEW TREATMENTS
 The Sanitarium Company is at all times seeking new ideas and initiat- ing additions and improvements that we may better care for our patients. During the fiscal year just ended this work has increased in increasing pro- portions, and new and improved and more pleasant facilities have been added, for the better care and happy cCntentment of our patients.
 Very lately experiments have been conducted in Eastern clinics with music, and the result most benefl- cial in many cases, particularly so i'll the mild and severe hysterical types, have been discussed widely in medical and lay journals. Morningside was quick to grasp this, the latest theory, in additional care of mental cases. After numerous conferences with one of the local electric stores, we secured tkeir services in installing a most in- genious device, whereby, from cen tral sending station, music is electri- cal1y transmitted to every building and every ward of the institution. Our practical application to an extent hears out the theory of the clinics