Hearings Before Subcommittee of House Committee on Appropriations, Consisting of Messrs. Cannon, Hemenway, Moody, M'Rae, and Allen in Charge of Sundry (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...get the ground all filled up, as it is too much filled up now. vVe have not room enough to take the female patients out to exercise without coming in contact with the male patients, and that is particularly true of the disturbed female patients, because they have to have a good deal of exercise and have to have a good deal of room. They are noisy and profane and obscene and things of that kind, and you do not want to bring them in contact with the other people, and the result is that they have to stay indoors. We are all too much cooped up now. I will freely admit that when I made that suggestion I was not fully informed as to the requirements of the situation. It is true that that building would be practically a cottage building and would be similar to buildings we would construct under the new plan: but it would be simply put alongside on a location which is already crowded and add to the crowding, and then when you come to add another one you would have no room for it. You have to start out first by acquiring more of a site there. We have not the space for more buildmgs except, possibly, one additional, as I stated, that might be added to one of these groups of buildings. They have been going on in that way, but it seems to me it is not advantageous. 1 do not say it in any way of disparagement at all, understand me, but it is too much of a kind of a patchwork, which has been done to meet the present contingency in order in the shortest possible time to accommodate the urgent demands right upon them at that time. Now, if we should have enough assurance we ought to lay out a plan for another institution, and my aspiration is to develop a modern mstitution, something that would be representative of its class, something that the States could pattern after in...