Report of the Board of Directors and Superintendent of the State Hospital, Raleigh, N.C. for the two years ending November 30, 1904
Contributors: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Finance; State hospitals; Psychiatric hospitals; Mentally ill; Care; Government policy; Mental health policy; State Hospital (Raleigh, N.C.)
Other titles: The North Carolina experience, beginnings to 1940.
Description: Report expresses concern regarding adequate treatment of North Carolina's mentally ill population and lack of a policy regarding the treatment. Presents census data demonstrating the discrepancy between mentally ill people needing treatment and the hospital's current inadequacy in meeting those needs. The Superintendent reports significant patient data, work accomplished, upcoming plans, finances, and needs. Tables provide data about patient admissions and discharges, social status, diseases, occupation, place of origin, and other similar information, also appropriations and expenditures for 1903 and 1904 and the gardener's report. The engineer, carpenter, tinner, laundress, and matron also provide brief summaries about production in their departments.
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This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digitization project's database, Documenting the American South.  It is a part of the collection The North Carolina experience, beginnings to 1940.

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Transcribed from photocopy of: Report of the Board of Directors and Superintendent of the State Hospital, Raleigh, N.C. for the two years ending November 30, 1904 Raleigh : E.M. Uzzell & Co., State Printers, 1905. 66 p. ; 23 cm.

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