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Show oo WHAT SENDS WOMEN TO PROVO Dr. C. B. Colder, superintendent of the state hospital for the feeble-minded and insane at Provo. was In Ogden today to attend a conference of board members relative to several Weber county cases. Dr. Calder slates that the hospital Is meeting with wonderful success considering the number of patients that are constantly confined at that Institution and the increase that is apparent In feeble-mindedncss and Insanity. In-sanity. Under the present system the cost to the state, per capita, Is les than -10 cents a day per inmate, which is much below what it has boon an J what other institutions report from other states. Thore are now about -150 inmates of the hospital, Including feebleminded feeble-minded and Insane. During the past seven years there have been about S00 persons committed lo the Institution, Institu-tion, yet thero nrc only 31 moro today to-day than there were seven years ago. This shows the largo number who have received and after treatment for varying periods of time have been discharged as cured. A certain percentage, per-centage, of course, have died the average life of an insane person being about 12 years. When asked what causes Insanity In most cases, Dr. Calder stated that there Is no particular cause, neither is thore any particular occupation that lends itself to insanity more frequently frequent-ly than another. Liquor causes from 15 per cent to 20 per cent of the insanity in-sanity in some states, but most of tho cases are curable. A percentage, however, suffer softening of the brain and die. Cigarettes aro condemned most emphatically by tho superintendent, superintend-ent, a considerable number of boy coBes being diroctly traceable to that cnuBe. "It la tho unfortunate housewife, with her nose on the grlnd-stono from early morning to late at nlgbt, mind-lug mind-lug her children and drudging day after day without ono ray of sunshine sun-shine or recreation, thnt causes a lot of our Insanity," declared Dr Calder. "The man can stop in at the corner grocery for a chat with friends. He exchanges ideas and gics his brain a bit of recreation. The wife struggling strug-gling at homo knows no 6uch respite from the dally toll. Her mind becomes be-comes clogged with the monotony of things In general and sho becomes morbid. Then hor mind begins to orlglnato fancies of its own and work over them day after day Usually it is domestic troubles or fanclod wrongs and before long you have a patient for the state to care for. A smile is the greatest Insanity proventlvo known to science." nn |