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Show REPORT OF INSANITY BOARD IS COMPLETE part, and thus relieve the already overburdened taxpayer of the colossal" colos-sal" load tha't is itO per cent unnecessary unnec-essary if the Idea of sterilization is adopted in solving this problem." The report recommends that the name of the; institution bo changed from State Mental hospital to L'tah ' State hospital. j In its report to the Governor the hoard commends the work of Dr. Dunn tiud his staff and approves a number of tlie recommendations for improved conditions at the institution. iiicnniu 1 Report Issued; Sterilization Ste-rilization of Feeble-Minded Is Advocated As Only Solution Solu-tion of That Problem. The liii'imliil report of the stilte tiimrcl lit iiisicnily mill Dr. Ki'iHlerii-k imim. siiiu-riiui'iiili-iil. ciiverinx the .-i.-livilics ill' tin' institution iliirint! lln. forty-first nnd forty-seconil yi'in-s at lis cxislcMic-i luis just boi-n issni-ii; '1 11" report ts very iompli'tp niul r.iv.-r.s in ili'liill every phnse of.tlie work iluiiii Hie piist two yenrs, nnd fives' n list of -i-iillreinenls for the l in lire, 'i'he institution, Dr. Dmin -lutes, meils: first two new liuilil-in-.'s mid n reeeiviiiR wnrd ; second ..ildilioiinl liind ; lliird work sliops lor the expiinsion of the voi'Mtlonal i ii i iik : fourth olinpel; . amnse-ii:cnt amnse-ii:cnt hull, mid rtiiilntr room; fifth nildilioiiiil hydro eipilpment : sixtl) viieiitionnl instriietors ; smentli- liiuiidry; eighth- kitchen anil bak: cry; ni III liill!l iters for mule and female employees; tenth second assistant physician or' psyehintrist; (arcs l'er "Kesidne" A consolidated report on tne pn-tienis pn-tienis shows Unit the hospitul is larncly caiiiij; fur . a 'residual: ip-uliiiion" ip-uliiiion" with n doiiliUul mid hopeless hope-less outlook in 714 cases' out' of n total of 77s j;itii'iits November 1, lllli, the .siierintelidctlt states. The report of the superintendent slates that In lt)l!)-20 Prof. .George S. Saoddy of the t'liiverslty of Utah and Dr. Ceorge E. Hyde, superiu-lendenl'of superiu-lendenl'of the slate menial hospital, supervised a mental survey of the I'tah schools. This report in part says: " 'I'roin the esanihiation oC these ir.0(i(l) school children and the authentic information we have fiiithered from social service workers work-ers we have made the following very conservative estimate of tlie number of feebleminded ' in. the stale: There are approximately 1.-o(H) 1.-o(H) definitely feebleminded in the si ale." I'siiifx these figures as a guide Dr. Dunn estimates (hat there are at this time approximately 2.UU0 feebleminded feeble-minded persons in the state. It is authoritatively stated that there are ."HI(l,(i(HI feebleminded persons in the1 Tniled States, of which numbers .i5,-(lll(') or ten per cent plus are in .special" institutions. Massachusetts-is Massachusetts-is quoted as having 30.0!Kl fecblc-i minded with .'S.OOO or ten her cenf in institutions. At the present time Ctah has or seven per ceir ot the estimated number of its, feeble-I minded as pntients at the state meni I t.al hospital, the report indicates. - I The percapita cost of care, main1'! tenance and housing patients at the j stale institution is ajiproximately i !?o(K) per year, the superintendent's ' report shows. If there are appror- imately 2.1H10 feebleminded jiersoli-s in the state it is easy fo 'calculate 1 that to hospitalize chat number, it would cost the state $1,000,0(X) each year. , ,: - ; Sterilization Advocated- - i "Fvery fair-minded person will agree that this method of solving! the feebleminded problem is chimer- "The most advanced- thinkers be-ical be-ical and unpractical," Dr. Dunn stat en. . I lieve and advocate that the one, and only remedy to solve the feeble-I feeble-I minded problem-' and solve it- right is sibrili'ation The operation is si in-1 opemiion absolutely stops the prose-, ile. safe and non-mutilating. The 'peralion absolutely -stops the procreation pro-creation of degenerates and . thus gives a brighter outlook to the-iin-mediale family, friends, state and na't ion. . 'I'ully i)0 to 9o per cent of tlie fet Mr minded, after such ah upev-.tion, upev-.tion, could remain at home, could Jii-o, after a little training, make their own living, either Wholly or in ! |