| Show I STKfE 1SA E ASYLU t ri BEAUTY OF THE SITE I U fc OJUDGr Warren it Duscnbcrry belongs I the honor of hiving 1 t drawn up the bill 1 l which m the year I 1883 resulted in the I completion of n home I i G i for tint most unfor I innate fraction of our i v population the dc t merited ml feebleminded J feeble-minded He also deserves credit from Provoitcs for the influence he brought to bear in the location of the institution an influence hich f however would live been exerted in vain had not the bite leilly appealed ap-pealed to the legislature as being the best in the State The State Insane I Asylum was established es-tablished by legislative act of February I Feb-ruary sotb 1880 and is supported by legislative appropriations The I work of construction began July 1881 I The south wing w is fumlllly opened for the reception of pilicnts July soth isSj flit north wing ind administration building having been completed since The asylum is a picturesque addition ad-dition to Provo whether viewed b 1 > day or by night On an eminence just where Center street Provos pnncipd thoroughfare would run into the ill most perpendicular wall 01 the Wasatch it stands one mile t east of the city a missive pile of V modern architecture by daylight but I suggestive ef a vast feudal castle when lighted up by electricity And the beauty of the scene is reciprocal re-ciprocal for from the tower of the asylum tin villcy with Provo city in the foreground the lake to the west the southern cities in full view and to the north an undulating landscape cape of fields and orchard imkes a picture which ifShakcspearc spoke trulv when he said lift fanatic Ihe low and the poet j are of IniIMIIQn all compact ought to set the population of this little circumscribed world raving with joy joyTHE THE FARM AND GARDEN But it is of more substantial advantages ad-vantages that it were best for me to speak The visitors attention is first Attracted to the neatly kept firm just west of the building Here I healthy rows of vegetables forty rods in length are nd 1 out with mechanic precision in Boning without sign ul weed or other incumbrinci Under the direction of a competent firmer much of the work is done by patients who ire permitted to work here as i special mark of favor Thus the institution is self supportIng support-Ing so fir as cereals arc concerned To 1 the north in the pisturc are feeding a pretty herd of twenty five Jerseys which furnish the institution with milk and butter Close by on the hillside are the sheds md barns where is my guide informs me enough hogs ire kept to cat up the refuse of the tables arid no more also enough thoroughbred hens to furnish eggs A large 1 bpring below the hill is i to be utilized is i fishpond fish-pond in the near future t thus turn islnng both profit and diversion for the immtu To the soulh on another hillside is m orchard fully Adequate to the wants of the institution during the fruit season and it I is the intention to plant groves both north ind south in which the male and female w irdj respectively may be scited 1 man hours each diy when the neither is i fine Outdoor exercises ire now taken mainly in the shape of walks through the fields and along the foothill foot-hill As we get nearer we observe that beautiful flower gardens surround the building on the west Hid south Surely such sights and scenesthe hunt orchards meadows and vlried I expanst of landi pe beyond ill of which is open to the gaze of the mniites must do ill tint the tbL outer world can do toward rcstorm j the reason rtisonECONOMIC ECONOMIC FEATURES I I shill not attempt i description of the building One glance at the cut will give the reader a general impression and stitntics as to size cost etc even if I had them at hind would not be remembered half day and would make this article prosy which I wish to avoid Hut a few details ol the interior will not fill to be generil interest The first impression one guns on j I entering the I spiciom hill I is the ttir I I scrupulous I cleanliness i of everything The oaken floors shine like mirror and carpets and mailing deaden all sound The central portion or that surrounding the tower is known is the administration Part of the building i build-ing Here I arc the offices phar mac reception rooms and iput ments of the medical superintendent I and his assistants also the chap I a null fitted room where religious services are held for the inmitcs ever Sundiy The culinary department lies just cast of the administration department depart-ment We first inspect the bakery Here I twice a week one mm bikes graham and white bread for nearly threehundred people comprising the inmates md l attendants We express ex-press our surprise at the way everything every-thing is just at hall and proceed to simple the bread It blight wholesome and thoroughly hecnic Our surprise is increased on en tcrmg the kitchen and learning that a single cook prepares all the meals varying the menu three times a day mil ever day of the week We inspect in-spect the table Whole and examine ex-amine the process not forgetting to note the absolute cleanliness of every object in sight and the freshness and sweetness ol the smell and we pro less our illingness to become bo ird ers at a good lou11l1 I figure per week Our guide who happcla to be the medic superintendent smiles and I we piss to the laundry 1 Here machinery again relieves human drudgery I hg becomes in l I easy matter for two or three hinds to wash dry and iron for this help less but numerous family We again inspect and liellamy s theories i as to concerted action in domestic I economy get a decided impetus If 1 j d V n tl I QpOJi1 I 11 = A jl I j i i I 11 h or I 1 s III It Q o if Ii 11811 w I H U f4fj l I I I iJ 1 1 J I J Il = fllolt 1121141 I 1Z 1 j ki I t71 i 11i i if = M 1 iI rJI1 Yff h lii I t n = I II fl1 WJ J j U2 jle WWlj l t 10 lI all i 4oT1f tt 0Z MAIN ENTRANCE inlalitrBUOa Uj 14Ino ChIII l U > it dw0 the insane can thus be cared for why cannot the sane > Why cannot people build < 1 so that while they have t 17o110 privileges of individual life they might still have all the advantages advant-ages of a common bakery kitchen and laundry But ere we can indulge these reflections re-flections we find ourselves outside the building in in airing court or patients garden < enclo > ed l on the cast md north by i neat trellis work in green and on the other two sides by the building The structure presents a very pltism ippeirince and will be of deniable benefit at all pleasant seasons of the year The tncloicd arti so we are informed will be ornamented with wllls llo v er bed rustic soils trailing vines and ft growing shrubxrv so tint the very class of patients who most need the sunlight and exercise call pond many hours under the eye of in at tendmt both pleas 1I1tly md profitably profit-ably The north or male court ort or-t irdtn is just in course of construe tionThen Then we inspect the boiler room which furnishes light heat and power to the building While rid cal improvements hut been made bv tin president and medic super itide u in every depirtmtnt inside and out including the dining courts just named it is in the heating and the ventilating tint the economy of the th mjii is most noticeable Space will not permit me to enter into the details but I will quote a portion of Dr I lardy s report The I saving in the cost of fuel r compared with the same month last yeir imounts to the dit ft ircncc between 150 h November mf < of 41 f Po fi k 7 b rc t Q i i t t mJr a zifii isi r i t 2 j1i eHnil trI11fft ri i rnfl1A irE i W t T 5 i1l1 EVE n HlElIL ITJ tl bUJ Hfi 1 f f IHH f htr A 41 ffMJlIlnUHJHinn ffi mHRm nrf Ir T e J1 Itt Z1t l5 fga tnfI I IHll r1l tb 1 K P STATE INSANE ASYLUM 1893 1 and 212 in November iSqG The saving will therefore be fully sixty per cent thi winter is compared com-pared wilh list winter notwithstanding notwithstand-ing last winter but five wards were heated whle this winter we shall heat seven w irels all the time and apart a-part of the time warm the entire eight wards And peril ips it is i not too much to sly that the kind md quantity of heat delivered in the wards mikes our plant the most complete and serviceable in the State ONE OF THE WARDS But our supreme curiosity has not yet been grinned We want to hive a peep into the wards Were we ordinary visitors this wish would not be gratified It would bt neither prudent I nor ethical explains the superintendent to subject these un fortunues I to the inspection of the public Many are private patients who pay their way and who art very sensitive to intrusions ot this k nd This explanation takes time and ere we ascend a fight ol steps into ward A we arc led into a room in the basement useless hitherto but now fitted with a tolerably complete library of standard liteiaturt and current periodicals Hen attendants attend-ants olT duty and the mot advanced pitients spend their leisure hours It was a happy thought of Dr Hardy and the benefits lie out of all proportion pro-portion to the trifling cost One of the cuts presented herewith here-with shows the central hall ofa ward in perspective Rooms open 01 each side Of one ol these a cut is i also given Patients hive the utmost ut-most freedom in this hall The heavy oik chairs seen in the picture were listened tothe floor but Dr II I lardy wishing to destroy every suLListior tint tIlls is 1 place of confinement hid the clamps removed Each 1 patient must mike his own bed and keep 1 his room in order If he does not know how the attendants instruct in-struct him till he learns As we pus along this corridor we ot course meet II ith battle binAu I hr experiences which would furni > han h-an interesting chapter in themselves did space or propriety pel nut of their I publication Suffice it to say that after sinking hands with Napoleon Napo-leon and being cnlcilaintd by the King of Norway and meeting other such pltisant diversions wt reach the other end and inspect the baths dining room closets etc md find the same scrupulous order and ncat ntss Patients ire most thoroughly classified according to wards and ire promoted or demoted according to the development of their maladies Attendants must make daily and hourly studies of their charges and rcpoit any changes at once to the medical superintendent l i Every r ci effort is made to give patients sell r control They ire not called upon to work but ire given permissions and accordingly it is i an honor that most of them sir ve ti win r st itisti s h jw that about fillv tin ol he patients have heclI I IIIplyed during the carOl car-Ol tin large I per cent ten were em ployed i piofitably with a slight gain to the Asylum seventy five were mploycd usefully it r certain hour in tin w irds in the garden etc vlult fiftysix were employed mply in the sense of individual 1 exercise and discipline ETHICAL ASPECTS Attendants must attend This is Dr lIardys I famous rule of discipline disci-pline for all assistants Cirefully printed rules silting forth the theorv 01 1 the superintendent as to duly treatment and giving minutest direc ions as to their duties and how to proceed in every exigency arc placed in the hands of attendants and officers Space does not permit of quotations Upon request the superintendent rote out in brief few suO the leading principles that dtttinnnt the methods ol treatment in this Ho pilal for Mental Diseases as the doctor for good psychic reasons prefers to call the institution I Restoration to normal conditions condi-tions is the fundament idea in the lie and treatment of the insane 2 There must be an intelligent arid constant effort made to harmonize harmon-ize the physical spiritud and mental cttutits of the individual hence a knoll ledge of the principles of physiology phys-iology mil pathology psychology Ii 1 iial and psychiatry t 13 essential 3 Privileges must be granted to orrcspond with the actual ipprttia correspo ti ri i ion of the patient 4 1 The mental world of the patient pa-tient being more or less in a I btate of onfusion his environment must be kept absolutely harmonious 5 The ward management depends de-pends upon a careful classification classifica-tion and b 1 attention of the attendants tendants In other words the patients pa-tients must be classified and attend ants must attend 6 In I handling patients suffering from mental diseases there must be absolutely no abuses no punishments punish-ments no disgrices I 7 In restraining the destruct or injurious activities ol the individual individ-ual judicious recourse must be hall to a I the individual blht me hmical c the chemical d the medical vely 1 classes of restraints respect I 8 A hospital for mental diseases should be ample m its provisions for a the food b the air c the employment or exercise of the patients pa-tients 9 Where a hallucination exists attempt at its removal must be made by changing the thought piths This 1 can be done only by reaching the inner self of the individual 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