anaheim-gazette 1906-10-11

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LOUIS And BA $67.50 October 12 and 13 Return Limit Nov.30 See the Santa Fe Agent Stockton Hospital for the Insane By Arthur J. Pillsbury. As soon as California began to be a state it began to make provision for taking care of its unfortunates, by establishing a state general hospital at Stockton. To this general hospital the insane were sent, but it was found not to be quite the place for them, and in 1853, the general hospital was abolished and an insane asylum was established in its stead. This was unfortunate in part and in part highly commendable. It was proper to establish an asylum for the insane, but the state general hospital should have been perpetuated, growing year by year to meet the growing demand until by now, California would, without doubt, have a state general hospital the equal of that of Massachusetts, a public charity of unsurpassed beneficence. Captain Weber, of revered memory, gave the State of California one hundred acres of choice land adjoining the then village of Stockton to be used for asylum purposes, and since then twenty-nine acres more have been added by purchase to the plot, which has been built upon and adorned until it has in the state no rival as a park unless it be the capital grounds at Sacramento. Some of the ground was low lying and all of it was adobe, but it has been filled in and enriched from time to time with thousands of cart loads of sedimentary "slickens" from the bed of the Calaveras river, until it is now all productive and well drained. The asylum was opened in July, 1853, and by the end of that year had Keg and all to all NG CO. Telephone Main 55 ESS etor the Wines, Liquors and Cigars Vine Co. Props. Anaheim Merchants Bottled Beer of the city. LO And BACK rival as a park unless it be the capital grounds at Sacramento. Some of the ground was low lying and all of it was adobe, but it has been filled in and enriched from time to time with thousands of cart loads of sedimentary "slickens" from the bed of the Calaveras river, until it is now all productive and well drained. The asylum was opened in July, 1853, and by the end of that year had 102 patients. In ten years more it had 583, and in another decade 1156, by which time the state had faced the problem of establishing another asylum and had broken ground at Napa. On the day of my last visit to Stockton hospital, Sept. 20, 1906, there were confined in the institution 658 women and 1184 men. Added to this total of 1842 persons, whose processes of cerebration do not sufficiently accord with those of other people outside to warrant their being at large, there are 65 attendants in the male wards, 43 attendants in the female department, 15 employes on farm and in dairy, and enough officers, engineers, mechanics, etc. to bring the population up to a round 2000 persons to be fed and clothed and generally cared for at public expense. Of the old, original hospital of 1853 little or nothing remains. The work of rebuilding with permanent brick structures began in the fifties and kept on, piecemeal, until an aggregate of $248,000 had been expended in tearing down and building greater what is now known as the "old" hospital which still accommodates between 500 and 600 men patients. The beautiful and commodious Woman's hospital was built between 1864 and '68 at a cost of $250,000. It was built to accommodate 500 patients but there are now 658 in it, and always room for one more, although not always easy to tell where to put another one. The splendid appearing men's main hospital was completed in 1885 at a cost of $224,000. Other couches and rocking chairs with vases and pottery the walls are plentifully engravings. In short, the parlors good enough for middle class people, good enough for anybody. And the insane inmate the furnishings themselves the administrative directive very capable Miss Tufft twenty years, the woman have crocheted and knitted and pieced together articles which have been tors and the proceeds thinffs that make the house able and inviting. Some idea of what it has these busy fingers to so many-three wards may be given the following estimate forishing of the entrance hundred and thirty yards $1.20, $156; one bookcase books at 25 cents each prices) $37.50; 50 pictures $150; 12 rockers, $80; 12 $60; lace curtains, $10; ward, $505.50. It has been fifteen years to equip all in this way, but it has and has proven worth things soothe the trouble quiet the distraught brakeage and destruction less than it would have been same things gone into a pity with children. The men's wards need to ished likewise, but unfortunate the men patients, although than 300 of them are productive labor, their while it inures to the comfort of all the inmates, does mand a price in the open would cost $7000 or $8000 the men's wards corres well, but I believe that should do it. It would well and humanely spent help to heal hurt minds. The legislature of 1905 stated $40,000 with which to farming land for Stockton The beautiful and commodious Woman's hospital was built between 1864 and '68 at a cost of $250,000. It was built to accommodate 500 patients but there are now 658 in it, and always room for one more, although not always easy to tell where to put another one. The splendid appearing men's main hospital was completed in 1885 at a cost of $224,000. Other buildings, accessory to the general use, have been built from time to time until the State now has invested in buildings something more than $850,000. For ten years or more there has been little or no new building done at Stockton, but only remodeling in order to make room for more patients. The hospital buildings are all stanch and were uninjured by the earthquake of April 18, but this is not saying that they would have withstood such a shock as that which threw Agnew down, for they would not, and yet they are distinctly better built buildings than those at Agnew ever were. But they are not modern, and the state should build no more like them. The plan of having one hallway down the center with rooms off both sides is not good for an insane hospital, although it may do for a hotel. In a hospital the patients have to live in the hallways and only sleep in the adjacent rooms. A bet- of all the inmates, does mand a price in the open market cost $7000 or $8000; the men's wards correspond well, but I believe that should do it. It would be well and humanely spent, help to heal hurt minds. The legislature of 1905 estimated $40,000 with which to farm land for Stockton and the board of managers ed 400 acres two miles non-hospital grounds. Out of the tingent fund the board also purchased 121.37 acres ad $123.50 per acre, a total of or $54,989.19 for one of farms in the neighborhood soil is adobe, except as to lands, is under ditch and prepared for irrigation. One of working patients has been lished out there already colonies will follow. In fairly system for chronic likely to develop on this will one day be as populous parent institution, if the institution does not go there in fast is Stockton growing its original site of 129 acres, cut town lots, will soon sell for to replace all the buildings instituting the institution and will increase more rapidly in fact, in another decade, will have built entirely around hospital grounds. The type of building is one that has many sunny octagonal, projecting windows like rooms either at the end or in the middle of the wards, sitting in a great flood of light and instituting the sitting rooms instead of using the hallways for sitting rooms. The buildings at Stockton made some attempt to attain the end, but the octagonal projects were far too small and project too little to make the wards fit they should be. There are twenty-six wards in the department of Stockton hospital including one at the ranch. They are all clean and as wholesome they can be made with the sunshine that can be gotten into them, they are as bare as the cupboard Old Mother Hubbard. What and elbow grease can do has been done for them but nothing else. This is very different with the furnishings of the twenty-three wards in Woman's buildings. Taken as a whole these wards are surpassed by being in the United States, except receiving wards in some of the two-date hospitals, and some of institutions for rich persons, each person has a suite ofaments at $50 to $60 per week. Small ways are carpeted, there are chairs and rocking chairs, stands, vases and potted plants, and walls are plentifully hung with savings. In short, the wards are good enough for the homes middle class people, which means enough for anybody. All the insane inmates earned all furnishings themselves. Under administrative direction of the capable Miss Tufts matron for The eventuality above outlined should prompt the board of managers to have the new farm site laid out to meet future requirements in order that trees may be planted where they will be wanted and building spots provided for utilization by-and-by. Meantime the farm can produce enough milk and meat, potatoes and vegetables, to cut those big items of support down to moderate figures if they cannot be eliminated altogether. Stockton will some day be crazy for the crazy people's grounds for a public park and it may be easily for the advantage of both state and city to have the present grounds relinquished for that purpose. Stockton hospital is fairly equipped for taking good physical care of insane persons, but it is devoid of equipment for healing hurt minds. Medicine can do little toward re-establishing a disordered intellect. The best curative agencies are mechanical, and Stockton hospital is devoid of mechanical appliances for the physical treatment of the mentally ailing. The need is for two cottages, large and airy, one near the men's hospital and one near the women's each equipped with appliances for giving hot, Turkish, steam, electric and prolonged baths, massage, wet packs, showers, sprays and whatever else constitutes a part of an up to date curative system. With these appliances should go snug single rooms with deadened walls where patients from the baths may sleep undisturbed and undisturbing; parlors and gardens where are singing birds, flowers, books, pictures and musical instruments, and plenty of white-capped, white-clad, sweet, trained and rocking chairs, stands vases and potted plants, and walls are plentifully hung with savings. In short, the wards are good enough for the homes middle class people, which means enough for anybody. All the insane inmates earned all furnishings themselves. Under administrative direction of the capable Miss Tuffts, matron for years, the women patients crocheted and knitted, hemiced and pieced together fancy as which have been sold to visiand the proceeds invested in that make the home comfortand inviting. The idea of what it has meant to bousy fingers to so adorn twentee wards may be gained from allowing estimate for the furnof the entrance ward: One bed and thirty yards carpet at $156; one bookcase, $22; 150 at 25 cents each (wholesale $37.50; 50 pictures at $3 each, 12 rockers, $80; 12 cane settees, see curtains, $10; total for one $505.50. It has been a task of years to equip all these wards away, but it has been done proven worth while. Such soothe the troubled spirit and the distraught brain, and the age and destruction has been on it would have been had the things gone into a private famchildren. Men's wards need to be furnkewise, but unfortunately for on patients, although more of them are engaged in active labor, their product, minutes to the common good the inmates, does not comprice in the open market. It cost $7000 or $8000 to fit up men's wards correspondingly but I believe that the state do it. It would be money humanely spent, and would neal hurt minds. Regislature of 1905 appropriation with which to buy more land for Stockton hospital. With these appliances should go snug single rooms with deadened walls where patients from the baths may sleep undisturbed and undisturbing; parlors and gardens where are singing birds, flowers, books, pictures and musical instruments, and plenty of white-capped, white-clad, sweet, trained young women attendants and nurses, on the male wards as well as female, to help nature do the rest. It will cost $50,000 or $60,000 to supply this need, but it will pay pecuniarity as well as humanely. The difference between turning patients back into society cured within a few weeks and keeping them for 12 to 15 years (the average longevity in an institution) will repay all the cost within a few years. It is not unreasonable to anticipate an increase of 25 per cent in cures as a result of supplying this need, and it will be culpable negligence in the legislature not to supply it. This article is too long already, but it will be sadly incomplete without reference to the "Grand Old Man" who has devoted so many years of his life to its welfare. Dr. Asa Clark was born in Essex county, New York, June 29, 1824, graduated in medicine in 1849 and came to California the same year. He practiced his profession at Placerville, Santa Barbara and Los Angeles, and was made superintendent of the Stockton hospital in 1861. He held this position until 1871, when he resigned to undertake a contract for caring for the insane of Nevada and Arizona in a private hospital in Stockton. He was made superintendent of the state hospital again in 1892 and held the position uninterruptedly until August 10, 1906, when he retired to make a place for his son, F. P. Clark, whom he has practically reared to care for insane persons. At the time of his resignation, although past eighty-two years of age, Dr. Asa Clark retained unimpaired not only his faculties of mind, clear as the peals of church tower chimes, but his sympathies for the distraught of mind were as keen and deep and broad and sweet as the fountain of human hope. May the twilight of his life deepen into the darkness that precedes the new dawning with all the tranquillity of California. the inmates, does not comprise in the open market. It cost $7000 or $8000 to fit up men's wards correspondingly but I believe that the state do it. It would be money humanely spent, and would heal hurt minds. Regislature of 1905 appropriated $1000 with which to buy more land for Stockton hospital, board of managers purchases two miles north of the grounds. Out of the confound the board afterwards and 121.37 acres adjoining at lower acre, a total of $14,989.19 for one of the best in the neighborhood. The obese, except as to some peat under ditch and is being used for irrigation. One colony of patients has been established there already and more will follow. In fact, a colcem for chronic insane is develop on this farm that may be as populous as the institution, if the entire institutions not go there itself. So Stockton growing that the site of 129 acres, cut up into will soon sell for enough to all the buildings now contain the institution and values ease more rapidly in the future they have in the past. In another decade, Stockton built entirely around the grounds. Much remains that can not be said, but it may be of interest to know that Mrs. Sterling has been continuously a patient in the Stockton hospital since 1852, that William Harrison Light came in in 1853 and is still there; that Herman Bauer has been an attendant for 43 years, 41 of which have been spent on one ward. Paul Jensen has been an attendant for 37 years, and has broken scores, perhaps hundreds, of new attendants into service during that time, and, though growing old, is food for years to come. Drying preparations simply develop dry catarrh; they dry up the secretions, which adher to the membrane and decompose, causing a far more serious trouble than the ordinary form of catarrh. Avoid all drying inhalants, fumes, smokes and snuffs and use that which cleanses, soothes and heals. Ely's Cream Balm is such a remedy and will cure catarrh or cold in the head easily and pleasantly. A trial size will be mailed for 10 cents. All druggists sell the 50c. size. 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