Show I INSANE SOLDIS I Stories as t Number Sent t Hospital Hos-pital Greatly Exaggerated Washington Feb AdJtGtn Cot bin recently ordered an Investigation of the that 250 demented soldiers report 25 demeDte sl i diets bad been sent across the continent conti-nent during the post three months for treatment at the Government hospital hospi-tal for the insane near this city and I that over 200 more soldiers were expected ex-pected to arrive at San Francisco shortly from Manila He has Just received 0 report on the subject showing that tho stories were exaggerated A statement of the commitments com-mitments of enlistments of men to the Government hospital for the insane by the Secretary of War from May 17 1898 up to the present time covering practically the entire period I from tho outbreak of the Spanish war shows as follows Admitted to the hospital Regular army 131 State volunteers 70 United States volunteer 10 exsoldiers recommitted re-committed 0 t Total 223 men Of this number there have since recovered re-covered and been discharged Regular Regu-lar army 6 Slate volunteers 5 United States volunteers 6 cxsoldlers 1 a total of 121 J There are now under treatment at the hospital regular army GO State volunteers 16 United States volunteers volun-teers 4 and exsoldiers S a total of 91 military patients Of the total number treated at the hospital only thirtyseven men Rerv dIn d-in the Philippines and of these eleven have been discharged a cured There wan not a single insane patient among narly 270 Invalid soldiers Just brought home on the hospital ship Missouri |