Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1921-09-22
Institution Built by the State but
the Federal Government Pays
for the Up-keep
F. w. LORENZ,
SPEClAKICT IN CHARGE
Buildings Located on Farwells
Point, Amongst a Group of
Thirty-three Indian Mounds

A. S25O,00O memorial hospital that
the recent legislature authorized for
the care and cure of shell-shocked
service men is well Underway at Far
wells Point, overlooking Lake Men
dota, on the north shore, half a mile
west of the Mendoza hospital, Madi-
SON BY the first Of the year the QUE
story structures, barracks type3 fire
proof, Of which there will be five,
will be completed and in use. BY
spring, the main hospital building. a
| 100000 structure with an 80-bed ca
pacity, will be finished and the group
completed.
| Already at Mendoza hospital to date.
nearly 325 cases have been handled.
lat present there are 14O patients at
the institution, being taken care Of as
best possible with the limited facili-
, ties and crowded quarters. Men are
being admitted at the rate Of about
20 each month. The outgo is about Is
a month Seventy-fiye to sc percent
of those discharged are cured. Que
fifth of the cases have returned and
of this number some have again beer
sent home. The average case takes
from four to five months of care.
There are. however, many cases that
may take years and some will never
be cured.
| The hospital has performed actual |
miracles Men were brought in who
apparently were beyond relief vic
| TINS of deIusions and melancholy. Al
few months Of treatment and they
begin to improve, until men who were
given up by family and friends return
to civil life well and happy. There
have been several cases so severe
that in spite of the care and treat
ment they died.
! Every case is treated as acute. Men
no matter how serious their condition,
how hopeless their outlook, are taken
with one idea in mind, to make whole
in body and mind. Mayor F.. w. Lor-
enz, in charge, has adopted a policy
of securing for his attendants and
staff. men and women who have
served in the war.
Major Lorenz has made survey of
the possible number of shell-shocked
cases and finds that there are 500
men in Wisconsin who had been dis
charged as mentally i'll.
| A special feature of the main build
| ing will be a hydro-therapy treatment
which consists Of baths and other
special forms of treatment for nerv-
/ Gus diseases. An eX-ray plant, clinical
and dental laboratories and every fac
| ility that can be used in aiding the
cure of the veterans will be installed.
| Admittance is confined to service
men and women. Any service man or
woman who is i'll can ask for admit
tance and will be examined, and, if
within the scope of the hospital, i'm
! mediatly taken in.
| That the best care and attention is
given the patients is attested by the
fact that while state hospitals spend
a maximum of 65 cents day, here
will be spent $3.50 a day, or four
times as much And also where in
state institutions there is an aver
Iage Of one attendant to every Is pa
lltients in the memorial hospital there
lis one attendant for every three pa
/ tients.
The upkeep of the hospital will be
Isupplied by the federal government
which pays the state $3.50 day for
leach patient Patients from other
states may be sent here by the
United States government.
The federal board OF vocational
training has put vocational school
with instructors. At present the
school is teaching elementary educa
ition, advanced academic education,
.ltypewriting and stenography. There is
lalso a school of auto mechanics, where
lmen coming from the farm get splen-
ldid instruction in motor handling;
likewise school for the various han
Idicrafts = basket-making, weaving,
lcarpentry and the like.
, More than so per cent OF the pa
! Itients attend the school. The idea of
the school is nor to exploit the men
: or their products but TO keep them
, busy and take their minds off their
ailments. The federal government fin
/ ances the school. II has put in over
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