Show DR ASYLUM ME THE TRUE CONDITION OF THE institution I X A gentleman who sign a himself 0 A tucker purporting to be from new south wales walea and to have credentials from the government of that province hns has published what ahat ho he claims to be the result of his observation during a visit to the insane asylum kept by dr B S 13 young he states that he obtained authority from governor murray to visit tho the insane asylum of utah the obtaining and granting of tho authorization wag was a work of supererogation ero gation as the institution visited by the tho gentleman ia Is entirely a private concern the tho property of dr young who is simply paid for boarding aud attending to the Inma inmates jes of this fact the gentleman appears to be ignorant and the permit given by the tho governor makes it a ap pear as if that off omm lelal official bad had not given i tho matter much consideration con oon eldera tian at the request of dr young a representative of the drove up ti tt ithe g the asylum aay lum lam this morning it Is a two story atory building with two wings and hab haa pleasant suTro surroundings g there being a grassplot grass plot fringed by trees tree in front and a portion of the ground is occupied by an orchard in these parts of the surroundings surrounding the more peaceable patients wander about in the day time in fine weather tha more obstreperous class take tae their airing in a large largo yard at the rear of the building enclosed by a high wooden fence we took a look loofe through the tho he interior r 0 o 0 of f the institution institutions with a view to abt obtaining annig information as to its condition there are twenty one inmates some of whom belong to the very coret wora class of pauper patients in most instances tha rooms were clean and entirely free from omen oten sive effluvia and the persons of the I 1 patients were in int about the same ra tio of Bani sani sanitary tary status among the tha exceptions ta 16 cleanly conditions is a woman named peter peteri son and the place occupied by her she presents a horrible elg eig 9 f r in addition to the vacant glare are of the mental imbecile in her eyes her figure iss is la so e emaciated m ablated I 1 as to make so e m I 1 as her appear almost liko like an animated skeleton she never gets out of bed and Is dressed or undressed by y the attendant being utterly helpless how such sueh a being or her surroundings roun round dings lugs could be kept always and entirely free from falth ali th Is an enigma that would ba 18 difficult of solution we were satisfied however that the absence absent e of a wholesome bur gur rounding odor was not due to any inattention of the attendants who do the bet beat they ca can under uander the c circumstances h cum stances another case casa of this class is ia bra thaniel thayer who gho is paralytic as well vell as insane and consequently utterly helpless regarding the refuse of his body in all cases so far as we could observe where it is practicable to maintain the constant clean liness ot of the patients and their MOMS rooms it is done but in a few instances H 1 appears appeals next to an impossibility sut sot as hs a whole the institution is well ordered and cleanly occasionally mr horseman the he has to resort to extraordinary measures in the cage case of big steve and a few others manacles maracles man acles are used when they ara ars out of doors if this were not done the lives of persons around would be in danger at their hands steve is a gigantic fellow and when vahen he becomes very tery violent which ia Is frequently the cr case so he is calmed down by being doused with cold water in extreme instances a cane has been used tb bring about subjugate ion wh wb en every other method called the food provided ia Is wholesome nourishing and served in good shape dr young scarcely ever visits the asylum seldom beldom er than twice a week and frequently as many as five time times as circumstances may altogether the institution is fairly walls vall kept and it Is unfair for any person to draw an unmitigated of gloom in depicting depleting the asylum the beat regulated institution of the tha kind hind must be but a sorry spectacle at best beat if for no other reason than the aggregation oi of 1 ao so many of goda gods cres I 1 tures turea bereft of the nobler fart part 0 man that raises efm above the I 1 brute la ia therefore total we do not wish it understood that we c consider 0 1 3 sider 1 this private asylum adea adequate u a te to the needs of this great territory neither should people h have ve the erroneous erro neona it I 1 la is s a public u b ile lie institution at all it ia Is a private concern and conducted as well as could be from private resources sour bour ces cea dr young 13 ia 13 well known to be a man of most moat tender sympathies and it ia Is far removed from him to countenance or permit any species of inhumanity in an institution of which he ia is the proprietor or hend head mr tucker speaks deprecatingly of the fact that the insane asylum commissioners had hafi not visited the institution for five live months we do not they have ovet evet visited it at all such ia Is not nob their duty their mir officers connected with a pub im iso not a private asylum having the supervision of tho the building in comsh erection at provo prow whish whick will he ba an institution constructed after the most approved roved 1 plans and will meet all the requirements of utah for many yearb years to domb come doubtless drs dra wilkins and ashurt hit BIT of california will obliged to mr tucker lacker for advertis advertising them BO so freely while the com commissioner ta will doubtless appreciate pre preci clate ate mr ruc Muc duckers muckers kerb kers recommendation to consult those two ge gentlemen fitle they according to our information have consulted most moat excellent on the subject under consideration considering the method of communicating thoad thead vice and other othen incidental circumstances it looks as if his gratuitous nega ness was aj akin shin n to his lack of information specially displayed in confounding a private with a public institution ution |