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Show INSANE PATIENTS INCREASE WHEN THE MOON IS FULL Oakland. Cal., March 9. In a petition peti-tion for the enlargement of the Insane ward of the Oakland receiving hospital. hos-pital. Warden Imlay states that the placo is always overcrowded when the moon Is full.' He said: "My records substantiate the fact that the insane ward is always overcrowded over-crowded when the moon is full." The records kept by Imlay show that when the moon is not full, two patients a week is the average, but when the queen of the night begins to wax, tho insane beginn to arrive until the cells are crowded beyond their normal capacity. |