Show HOSPITAl fOR INSANE NEEDS NEED MOA WAR OS Arrangements Made to Convert Hyde Memorial Building Into Additional Q Quarters arters for Overflow The Utah S State Mental hospital Is so overcrowded with patients that the fire escape halls have haye been turned Into dormitories in order that the patients may be acc dated This fact was brought out at a meeting of the state board and Superintendent Dr Dunn and Governor George H. H Dern Darn at a meeting in the office of the latter Monday afternoon It was pointed out that the old hospital building and the old cottages cottages cottages cot cot- had normal capacity for patients The present average population population population pop pop- of ot the hospital according to toI State Treasurer John Walker Valker a I member of the board of hospital I trustees is which created an overcrowded condition whereby many of ot the fire escape escape I halls are filled with beds and used as dormi dormi- tories The day rooms have been converted converted converted con con- into sleeping quarters and the wards which were built bunt to ac accommodate accommodate accommodate ac- ac from front 40 to 50 patients are containing from 65 to 75 pa pa- Part of this congestion reported re re reported reported re- re ported by Dr Dunn superintendent of the hospital has been relieved by bythe bythe bythe the conversion of two wards In the new Hyde Memorial building the later however not yet completed owing to a lack of funds and Dr Dunn has been forced to use his maintenance account to help out Inthe in inthe inthe the care of ot the patients The Hyde Memorial Memorial Memoria building ac according according according ac- ac cording to Treasurer Walker Vallier was built as a 11 i. i receiving and observation building and for the treatment of voluntary patients and alcoholic anti and drug addicts It has a capacity capacity capa capa- city when complete of patients and now sixty are accommodated i and there is still a congestion of ot approximately patients In order to meet this congestion It is proposed to cit the basement o of the Hyde Memorial building into wards instead of having idealistic wards with swimming pools and pool and billiards and other things which are regarded as unnecessary It Itis' Itis is is' the Intention to move sli shops pf In the basement to another building which is to be constructed if a fund of is provided by the legislature and thus relieve the structure for the purpose that it was intended so that additional ad i patients can cnn be dated With this done doue It is believed that the hospital can care for the average population as stated which Is more tha than |