Milford chronicle., 1926-12-17
INSTALL RADIO SYSTEM
AT STATE HOSPITAL
Biennial Report Gives Complete
Data Concerning Operation Of
Hospital.


short time to the inmates of the Del
aware State Hospital at Farnhurst.
The installation of the system is now
going on, and is expected to be com
pleted before Christmas.
In the Nineteenth Biennial Report
of the State Board of Trustees of the
Delaware State Hospital (from July
l. 1924, to June 80, 1926 which is
now being printed on The Stars
press and will shortly be issued, the
Medical Director, DR.. NJ. A. Tarum1-
anz. announces that In the near
future we expect to install a radio
system all over the hospital in order
to enable us to bring music to all
wards and patients, who are not able
to attend the entertainments.
A contract was entered into with
L. P. Moore on November 80, to in
stall the system by December 10.
There will be a central station in the
administration office, with twenty
seven Atwater Kent horns or recelY-
ers throughout the hospital.
The program will be supervised
and selected by the doctors in the
various wards. In violent cases, sou
and soothing music will be utilized
which will produce quiet without the
use of sedatives. On the other hanu'
with melancholy and depressed cases
lively music of the jazz type Will
be selected. In other words, the type
of music will be governed by the
types of mental disturbance.
The report, mentioned above, con-
tains a complete medical history Of
the Delaware State Hospital and
complete record of physical opera
ton and receipts and expenditures
during the two years from July l,
1924 to June 80, 1926. The hospital
was operated at a saving Of $44,-
733.O7 from the appropriations and
receipts for that period. The receipts
exceeded estimates by S20,965.99 and
the expenditures fell $2S,767.OS be-
low the budgeted amount.
Mcfarland Farm Acquired
It is noted that title has been tax
en- individually by the trustees to the
Mcfarland Farm, adjoining farm
land of the hospital, the price being
S8,917.S6. The property will be turn
ed over to the State if money is ap-
propriated by the 1927 legislature for
that purpose.
The budget estimate for 1928 is
S2S5. 5.71O, and for 1929 is $278,2OO,
with deductions estimated of re-
ceipts from pay patients OF S5O'0OO
for the two years, making the
amount requested of the legislature
S513,910 for the two years.
Under permanent Improvements,
$4,000 is asked, items being regis
tered for a new building for the me-
chanical department, new opera
ting room, the enlargement of the
amusement hall, and for the McFar-
land farm and cost of repair OF the
house and barn located upon it.
In the summary, note is made OF
the construction during the current
years of two new wings in Swift
Building, two pOrches in Annex
Building, new dining room for en-
ployees and new wing in the Black
Cottage for the isolation ward.
In the report of the Medical Di-
rector, detailed information is given
as to work accomplished during the
past two years.
Note is made of the change in ex-
ecutives at the hospital. DR.. William
H. Hancker, who was Medical Super
intendent of the hospital since 1898,
requesting to be released from GER
tain duties on account Of ill-health.
DR.. Hancker has been appointed as
Superintendent Emeritus, and is sue
ceeded as head of the hospital by DIR.
TaraumianZ.
The progress of occupational ther-
any is noted, and how it is being
carried on at hospital. This is re-
garded by DR.. Tarumianz as one OF
the most important factors in the
modern treatment of mental cases,
and he is convinced that every pa
tient should have some form of en-
ployment, occupation and recreation.
Urges X-Ray Department
The establishment of an X-Ray de-
partment is urged strongly as aid
in diagnosis of physical and mental
diseases of the patients. An Electro
hydrotherapeutic department is also
requested, as well as the establish
ment of a Social Service department,
for functions of the latter being to
contribute data relative to the cases
of patients which will help in the
placing of them in the community,
finding homes for those who can be
paroled, and to aid them in securing
employment when paroled or dis
charged.
The per capita cost of mainte-
nance of patients during the two
years completed is $7.42, as compar-
ed to the previous year of S7.23.
On July 1, 1924, the population of
the hospital was 583. There have
been admitted 285 patients, making
total number under treatment of 1868,
as compared to 723 in the previous
two years. There have been 49 dis
charges as recovered, 81 as improv-
ed, II as unimproVed and 1 without
psychosis.
Population July 1-625
The deaths totaled 131, leaving
the population on July l, 1926, as
1926 men, 300 women, or a total of
625. The daily average population
was GA.
OF the admissions, 228 were from
New Castle county, 25 from Kent and
80 from Sussex. In percentage to
population, New Castle county regis
tered Is per cent, Sussex, z per cent
and Kent, per cent. The 2S5 white
patients and so colored patients
show that in proportion to popula-
tion, u per cent are white and Is
per cent colored. On the date of the
report, there were SIT patients in the
hospital, excluding all paroles.
Among the seventy-three cases un-
der operation by the consulting sur
geons during the past year, there
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