Show MENTAL HOME HAS HAS' PROBLEM Patients Sleep on ml Floor 1 I at Provo PrO Hos Ilos- Hospital Hospital pital PROVO PROVO Aug 12 With With every every bed bedin bedIn bedin in the women women's s wards of ot the Utah Stale Slate hospital occupied and patients sleeping on o the floor the problem of or housing the growing ever-growing population population population tion of ot the institution continues to toa a draw on the resourcefulness of ot the hospital management including the members numbers of or the state board of ot In Insanity In- In sanity who met in regular monthly session cession here today toda the superintend superintend- superintendent ent avers In his monthly report Dr Fred Fred- Frederick Frederick Frederick erick Dunn superintendent pointed out that there is a 1 total of or patients pa pa- patients patients in the institution a a. net in increase In- In Increase increase crease of ot seven during the month of ot July He told the tle board members that in addition to being overcrowd overcrowd- overcrowded ed in the wards there re remained re- re remained remained only six unoccupied beds on the mens men's side of ot the hospital and indicated that beds now occupy every available I bit of ot room In the institution Institution institution tion including most of ot the corridors The superintendent reported that certain counties of ot the state are arc at- at attempting tempting to convert the hospital Into an an almshouse Many judges Judes acting 1 on the rt of ot county officials of officials ot- ot anu physicians he states are committing aged and infirm indigents from county hospitals and infirmaries les ies to the state hospital with a II view to shifting the responsibility of ot their care and treatment from the county to the state slate Such action on the part of at county authorities is not only I working a hardship on the h state at atut but ut it h has t been e responsible for or the exclusion of ot many miny pitiful cases of ot feeble mindedness that should receive care and treatment at atthe atthe atthe the state institution the superintend superintend- superintendent ent explained A A mental hospital was not Intended to house physically infirm patients notwithstanding some of ot them may seem a little childish in their declining declining ing In years Dr Dunn declared They are far better off orr in county institutions Institutions and it is a shame that they should be committed to this hospital to the exclusion of ot many cases that are entitled to the care and treatment this institution would otherwise have to offer them The board concluded today that leg- leg legislative legislative enactment and additional ap ap- appropriations ap- ap appropriations would be necessary to es establish es- es establish establish a branch hospital at Beaver Deaver or at some other point within the I state slate Investigations also pointed to the impracticability of oC such a branch of ot the state institution members of ot the board reported During the month of oC July twenty twenty- I two patients were discharged from the i hospital l and four u deaths occurred r d f f while three thirty hr patients were ad admitted ad- ad The causes of ot the deaths were given as Paresis 1 pulmonary tuber tuber- tuberculosis tuberculosis tuberculosis I 1 1 acute enter enter- enteritis enterItis enteritis itis 1 1 |