The daily times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1902-1936, 1921-04-08
GOVERNOR WOULD
. INCREASE HOSPITAL
MEDICAL STAFFS
INSANE LACK ATTENTION
Interest Governor Has Shown
in States Unfortunates Com
mendable. Delegates to the
Good Roads Association.
Campaign to Reduce Ty-
phoid in the State.
INSANE LACK ATTENTION
(By Max Abernethy)

(By Max Abernethy)
Raleigh, April Stocking over
the Morrison administration, from
cellar to garret, Governor Morrison
has concluded that one of the first
things that should be remedied is the
lack of medical attention at the hos
pitals for the insane at Morganton,
Raleigh and GoldsbOro.
The governor has given this phase
of his administration enough thought
and consideration to authorize the
statement that he does not intend to
go out of Office without having done
his best to double, triple or maybe
quadrup1e the medical staff at the
institutions for the unfortunate. 1t
| is possible that the directors may be
convinced to go even further in this
direction but the point Governor
Morrison has in mind is to materially
| increase the nursing and medical
stats of the various State hospitals.
Although Governor Morrison had
some difficulty, when he was racing
for the governorship, to satisfy the
voters he was only politician seek
ing what Office he might devour yet
the hospital directors are convinced
that there has never been an execu-
\ tive who sought the light harder
| than his present excellency. The in
terest the governor has shown in the
welfare of the States unfortunates,
| I, lot RI 10
[ better treatment for them, will be
one of the high lights of the present
administration.
There is no charge laid at any hos
pital door because of the prevailing
conditions but Governor Morrison
thinks that 1900 patients, sick in
mind or body or both, ought to be
provided with more than three ply
sicians. Such is the condition at the
State Hospital for the Insane at the
capital city. Under the best condi-
tions twelve hundred mentally and
physically sound persons, says the
governor, require more attention
than three physicians can give. His
excellency will see that the situation
is remedied.
Already he has impressed upon
the hospital directors in language
as strong as can be spoken. The gov
ernor has not forgotten that "the
care of our unfortunates" was one of
his inaugural planks and he does not
intend to let his promise to the peo-
pie pass out of his mind.
The hospital directors will not be
allowed to forget either for the gov
ernor has served notice that there
will be no let-up until there has been
a radical change in the affairs of the
institutions. While he was being crit.
= icised for asking for power to hire
4 and fire his own subordinates Cover
nor Morrison was only looking for q
sought to neglect thousand patients
there would be no earthly way OF
4 changing the system, and conse
: quently the Morrison request car
. now be understood.
What the Morrison administration
1 1dChS III power 10 T0nOV0 ITOm OulCt
it is well fortified in power of per
: suasion, and it is through this meth
: cd the governor will get action.
There is to be no let-up in thu
campaign launched against the SALE
of questionable stock by wildcat
Y statesmen declared Commissione
Stacy w. Wade of the State Depart
y ment of Insurance today. The fac
!. that the International Petroleum
s. Company of Texas, through the use o
: the mails and the name of Ro1an
# F. Beas1ey, former State Commission
d er of public welfare, is endeavorin
l. to do business in North Carolina i
II open violation of the law only add
to the company's unsavory tactics
r. Commissioner Wade thinks.
% "We do not want the people Q
Continued, on page 81