| Show ASYLUM PATIENTS medical superintend ten aerts leeport lle Ite port OASES NOT WANTED chronic cements De ments idiots eaf epileptics and the sim ole feelis minded th asylum board hold bald vc session oa friday the medical madicka superintendent submitted reports an aa follows current corrent expenses for tho the month of my MAY Sl SA clarea IANes area other ex pauses 27 94 68 scales were placed in position I 1 costing 35 A refrigerator had boan built for report accepted and appropriation mad ado movement of patients daring the month of may ALE patients patient in asylum 83 admitted 3 2 5 total under treat ment 85 discharged 2 1 3 died 2 21 3 9 remaining 84 94 in connection with this matter I 1 wish to call the attention of the board to the fact that tue larger portion of cases being sent bent to the asylum are old chronic cases for which there can possibly sibly be no hore of recovery many of them aged and dying from se senile n ae decay I 1 am satisfied that a number that are an in the asylum at the present time are here without regard to the law that they shail not be cases of idiocy imbecility or simple feeble es erases that should be for by the counties from whence they come and not by the territory at large if this class of patients continue to come coma in the future as they have done dona in the past it will not be long ere the asylum will be filled with chronic cuts cases it Is ia very to the asylum that this thia should be allowed all as it decreases decrease the percentage of recoveries and largely increases increase the death rate xiao also the cost of core care and keeping ja its increased for many of these theme caama basea aie are filthy destructive of their clothing and a great care to those haying charge of them they ibey require to to he looked after just fust like little children yet they are not dangerous as an the term is applied to insane people these cases should be cared for in the county poor louses houses or other suitable places controlled by the counties aa it does not essem proper that the asylum should be ba filled filed with chromic cements de ments idiots epileptics except with mania and simple feeble mind edAll all of these are practically incurable inc arable and not dangerous to others in the patients now in the asylum the follo following winK stats state macut is approximately correct balza TOTAL epileptic 10 6 16 seble lebl I 1 minded a 9 8 14 acate mania 5 2 7 idiots 4 3 7 i acute dementia 2 1 3 chronic mania 7 6 13 chronic dementia 34 29 63 85 95 on motion of 0 0 E allin alien the medical superintendent report was referred to a special committee commit tea of J D jones george sutherland and dr W B R pike with instructions to report at next meeting on motion of mr allan the medical med icil superintendent was in to write to the probate judges of the several counties calling attention to the class of patients patient which bould not be committed to the asylum under the laws lav of the territory the executive committee committed tea reported that the oak spring pipe had been repaired and that a good pure of water was now obtainable it was further farther reported that surveying pro to the morine of the ca canal nal back of the asylum farther back into the mountain had bad been bea done and that it would cot cost if hired to be done but they were of the opinion that if the ground were sloughed ploughed hed and the brush baish cleared off 05 and a good road made across the canal that the city and county would haul the gravel away without cost to the Terri territory torr it was ro commended that the work be do ac cordier to the last suggestion re be port adopted secretary dark clark reported the dis dia bura ement of a 51 contini contingent zent fund accepted and a now new land fund of appropriated the matter of repairing the asylum root was referred rel erred to the executive committee board adjourned |
