anaheim-gazette 1906-11-08

MENDOCINO STATE HOSPITAL A Location that will be Justified in the Future Rather than in the Present By Arthur J. Pillsbury. Secretary, State Board of Examiners. The legislative days of 1888 and 1889 were halcyon days. The ancient halcyon laid her eggs not far from the sea after the winter solstice. In that winter she laid two, one for Mendocino and one for San Bernardino county, and by the simple political device of playing both ends against the middle. The same session of the legislature provided for one state hospital for the insane for northern California and one for Southern. Neither selection was good at the time. The southern one was too hot, the northern too far from everywere. The southern one continues to be too hot and will continue until the world changes ends or the Salton sea prevails over human engineering. The northern location will be better when the Northwestern railroad gets through to Humboldt and Del Norte counties and taps Trinity. It will then be easier and cheaper to commit patients from northern California to the hospital at Ukiah than to some hospital in Patagonia. It isn't so much so now. The future will justify the selection of the Mendocino site. The past and present condemn it. The legislative bill providing for the establishment of a state hospital for the insane within three miles of Ukiah town was approved February 20, 1889, and $350,000 was provided to be raised during 1890 and 1891 toward the acquisition of lands and the construction of transformed into a modern brick clock tower which can racked and twisted the admiring building to its hurt but not new, to its destruction and many valuable lives. The station building has a frontage and a depth of 50 feet, and it lies high counting a full story. Immediately back on connected with it by a short is the assembly hall building feet, two stories and a stretching to the right and building for 270 feet on either side of main ward buildings, the high with a basement in addition way between the two and backward 180 feet from the hall building, runs the kitchen house, steward's office, etc., high. The entire length of tuition north and south is 54 the buildings are of brick. The state's investment at hospital figures out a total of $607,550. This investment enables management to take crowds 710 patients, of whom 488 are men and 222 women. To take these there are on the payrollers, attendants and employ too many. There are 27 men, including two night side. There are 11 day attendant to each ward, for some are as crazy when they are when they are awake, though often so. Persons sane who awake are generally insane are asleep. That is a main Ukiah is in a sense an out fornia to the hospital at Ukiah than to some hospital in Patagonia, It isn't so much so now. The future will justify the selection of the Mendocino site. The past and present condemn it. The legislative bill providing for the establishment of a state hospital for the insane within three miles of Ukiah town was approved February 20, 1889, and $350,000 was provided to be raised during 1890 and 1891 toward the acquisition of lands and the construction of buildings. A board of managers, duly appointed, selected 130 acres about three miles south of Ukiah, with what was declared at the time to be "An ample and abundant supply of pure, fresh water for all purposes of the hospital," all for $39,000. It may be noted that the state has since purchased 270 acres of land, nearly if not quite as good and in the immediate vicinity, for $16,250 and has expended $27,500 for an additional water supply for the institution. The end is not yet. But those were halcyon legislative days and it was not supposed that lunatics required much water. It was before the "show me" way of Missouri had spread over the land and had put the purchasing public upon its guard. The architects for Mendocino hospital copied rather closely after the institution previously erected at Agnew. To be sure, the enormous and enormously destructive brick tower at Agnew was so far modified as to be Impoverished Soil Impoverished soil, like impoverished blood, needs a proper fertilizer. A chemist by analyzing the soil can tell you what fertilizer to use for different products. If your blood is impoverished your doctor will tell you what you need to fertilize it and give it the rich, red corpuscles that are lacking in it. It may be you need a tonic, but more likely you need a concentrated fat food, and fat in the blood. These buildings are 18x30 story, built with 2x3 studding with lap-rustic, all lumber both sides. Windows under have wire screens which may be let down from the wind comes in too strong roofs are shingles and the tongued and grooved. In quiet patients and patient If your blood is impoverished your doctor will tell you what you need to fertilize it and give it the rich, red corpuscles that are lacking in it. It may be you need a tonic, but more likely you need a concentrated fat food, and fat is the element lacking in your system. There is no fat food that is so easily digested and assimilated as Scott’s Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil It will nourish and strengthen the body when milk and cream fail to do it. Scott’s Emulsion is always the same; always palatable and always beneficial where the body is wasting from any cause, either in children or adults. We will send you a sample free. Be sure that this picture in the form of a label is on the wrapper of every bottle of Emulsion you buy. SCOTT & BOWNE CHEMISTS 409 Pearl St., New York 50c. and $1.00. All Druggists pened into a moderately sized, moderately heavy steel and rock tower which on April 18 and twisted the administration to its hurt but not, as at Agents destruction and the loss of valuable lives. The administration has a frontage of 150 feet depth of 50 feet, and is four stories and a basement. Along to the right and left of this for 270 feet on either side are ward buildings, three stories with a basement in addition. Mid-winter the two and extending 180 feet from the assembly building, runs the kitchen, storeeward's office, etc., two stories the entire length of the instit- north and south is 540 feet. All things are of brick. State's investment at Mendocino figures out a total investment of $60. Investment enables the hospital ment to take crowded care of patients, of whom 488 are, or were, 222 women. To take care of there are on the payroll 87 off-dendants and employes—none. There are 27 male attend- including two night watches in here are 11 day attendants on side and one night attend- catch over the slumbers of 222. There should be one such at each ward, for some patients lazy when they are asleep as they are awake, though it isn't Persons sane when they are generally insane when they up. That is a main difference. is in a sense an out-of-the-way No institution likes to see an unexpended salary or support balance covered back into the state treasury unused. It is held to be establishing a bad precedent. However, the finances of Mendocino hospital are well managed. The purchasing is conscientiously and prudently done and there is little or no waste. Mendocino hospital has the money in hand for the acute insane on the female side. It will cost $35,000 and will fill a long felt want. The building should now be far toward completion instead of being an incorporeal hereditament, and would have been if the superintendent had been empowered, by and with the advice and consent of the State Lunacy Commission, to determine the plan and proceed with the work. Every housewife should be permitted to plan her own kitchen. So also should every superintendent be permitted to plan, in general outline, the institution over which he is to preside. He may make mistakes but he stands a better chance of knowing what he needs than any one else, be he architect, builder or member of a board of managers. The coming legislature should provide $40,000 for a cottage for the acute male cases. It will have to be larger than for the females because the male population at Mendocino outnumbers the female 2 to 1. There is a 40-acre tract in the midst of Mendocino's watershed in private ownership which should be acquired in order to give the institution full control of its water supply and augment that supply by the flow of a large perennial spring. Mendocino needs water for irrigating its farm. Water can be had only from wells and the surface supply is inadequate. Exterior conditions seem to warrant the hope that artificial water may be provided. There is a 40-acre tract in the midst of Mendocino’s watershed in private ownership which should be acquired in order to give the institution full control of its water supply and augment that supply by the flow of a large perennial spring. Mendocino needs water for irrigating its farm. Water can be had only from wells and the surface supply is inadequate. Exterior conditions seem to warrant the hope that artesian water may be procured by going deep enough. In my judgment the state should authorize the expenditure of $4000 or $5000 in boring for artesian water. If successful, even in getting a rise of water adequate for pumping, without getting a flowing well, the expenditure would be returned in the way of added product. And besides the day will come when colonization of docile chronic patients upon this farm (one mile from the main institution) will be prudent and profitable. It would be so now. In this way room can be made for an increased population quickest, best and cheapest. A more abundant water supply will be wanted for this also. Dr. E. W. King, the superintendent, was no spring chicken when he took charge of the hospital in 1893, and he is now more than three score and ten years young. Such men do not grow young old. He is still going to school. When he was past sixty he took up the study of German in order to better handle the correspondence and learned enough to serve than purpose. He lives the simple life and is as simple in his policies as in his life. He has fair executive ability and the faculty of selecting subordinates who can supplement his own limitations. Dr. King is now a specially trained man and is doing good work. He can do better, and can heal more hurt minds, when the state equips him with cottages for treating the acute insane, cottages and industries for the convalescent, a secluded ward for the care of disturbed patients who need to be taken off their respective wards as soon as they become noisy and hustled away to some quiet place where they can be given baths, wet packs, message and whatever else will unstring their taut nerves and afford them rest. This last is desperately needed now. The medical and executive staff at Mendocino are doing the best they can with what they have to do with. 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