The Journal of Mental Pathology, Volumes 7-8State Publishing Company, 1905 |
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Page 107 - To prevent overcrowding in the state hospitals, it shall recommend to the legislature the establishment of other state hospitals, in such parts of the state as in its judgment will best meet the requirements of such insane. It shall also furnish to the...
Page 98 - ... insane, involving, as it does, even under the most economical methods, the expenditure of vast sums of money for lands and buildings, with their equipment and furniture, besides an enormous annual outlay for maintenance, repairs, renewals, and enlargements, may well command the most serious attention and organized cooperation of the legislator, the political economist, the taxpayer, and the humanitarian.
Page 155 - ... Compare in another such census the fertility of the more intelligent working man with that of the uneducated hand labourer. You will, I again feel certain, find that grave changes have taken place in relative fertility during the last forty years. We stand, I venture to think, at the commencement of an epoch which will be marked by a great dearth of ability.
Page 108 - ... attained in the general care and treatment of the insane and in the methods of management and condition of the hospitals established and maintained for the care of this unfortunate class of citizens? Also, what benefits have the taxpayers derived from the substitution of State for county care of their dependent insane? Among the more important improvements as regards methods and conditions which have accrued to the institutions for the insane and their government, under the new order of things,...
Page 32 - JT, comes of a family in which intemperance and mental weakness and disorder are prominent disease features. "2. Her utter lack of moral sense has been evident from childhood in her incorrigible proclivity to falsehood, dishonesty, mischief-making, general unreliability and probable theft. The good moral, mental and religious training which she received in her youth resulted in no modification of her character, and were practically thrown away on her in that respect. "3. Her moral insensibility is...
Page 109 - Provision for paroling patients, under certain conditions, for a period of thirty days, during which they may be returned to the hospital without recommitment. This affords opportunity for testing the fitness of certain patients for final discharge, and to others for occasional visits at home.
Page 102 - ... for upward of half a century, or until the creation of the State Commission in Lunacy in 1889, and the enactment of the State care law in 1890, notwithstanding the establishment during this period of five additional State asylums, namely, at Poughkeepsie, Middletown, Buffalo, Willard, and Binghamton, the latter two being for the chronic insane only. Thus, while the State had recognized the principle...
Page 104 - ... of the State Commission in Lunacy in 1889, and the enactment of the State care law in 1890, notwithstanding the establishment during this period of five additional State asylums, namely, at Poughkeepsie, Middletown, Buffalo, Willard, and Binghamton, the latter two being for the chronic insane only. Thus, while the State had recognized the principle and, at least theoretically, adopted the policy of State care for its dependent insane, it had tolerated a system of county care in its worst form...
Page 28 - ... to propagate their species, indicates that this freedom of choice is only superficial or apparent, and that the initial steps of reproduction are being constantly, not periodically, taken by the force of nature, working independent of human will or of social accident. The woman buds as surely and as incessantly as the plant, continually generating not only the reproductive cell, but the nutritive material without which this would be useless, whether or no either be utilized in further development
Page 110 - Provision for the clinical teaching of insanity in the State hospitals, by admitting to the wards thereof students...