The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, July 06, 1916, Page 6, Image 6
IMPROVEMENTS AT ASYLUM
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HOW MANNING'S WORK HAS
HELPED AFFLICTED.
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Appalling Conditions at Institution
Replaced by Modern, Scientific
Methods Through Governor.
any be in doubt about the immense
improvements in the conditions
at the State hospital they
: should visit and see for themselves.
The people who have kindred or
friends in the institution know.
f i
Ask them.
The following is a brief statement
of the case from one of Governor
Manning's addresses:
Lawlessness and factionalism and
ignoble politics go always hand in
hand. A cruel proof of this stared
me in the face when I assumed the
office of governor. An institution,
designed in Christian charity to care
for the most helpless, the most hopeless,
the most pitiable of our people,
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had been made year in and year out,
the football of politics.
I refer to the State Hospital foi
xne insane. . ^
This perversion of a mighty mercy
had reacted on every one of the 1,800
patients.
These patients come from every
county in the State and there are
tew of us who have not friends or
relatives in this institution.
The physical condition of the asy'
inm was appalling.
The men's wards were filthy and
unhealthful; extravagance, waste and
neglect revealed absolutely the failure
to give inmates the treatment
^ due to patients. Their care and
ip-v treatment were worse than those
given to prisoners and convicts.
The women's ward was the institution's
best, but that ward bore silent
witness of needless misery heaped
. upon a hopeless tragedy. In rows
around the walls hung straps for the
IT ^Tlolent insane and in this ward alone
were 92 hopeless women patients. At
night they were confined in their
|B cells in- a building without a workir:.
ing hydrant or fire hose and with
\ tmly two nurses to care for them or
rescue them in case of fire. What
1 1 ' ? Vi/*?i.rt? on/1 /lie.
would nave ueeu iue uuaut
aster had fire broken out I need not
k . and cannot describe.
5 One visit to the asylum convinced
the legislature that something must
B*\ he done at once. It was done generously
and handsomely^ according to
the information then available as to
Its needs. But when I came to apply
the reforms authorized by the
legislature I found one serious defect.
I was fortunate in securing a
board of regents of the highest pa:
triotism and humanity, but the superintendency
of the asylum is like
wise a work of patriotism, skill and
?i': ' humanity. It requires a man skilled
In medicine and yet skilled too in
business administration. Such a man
I could not find for the cash salary
nl: v pf $3,000 per year, but it was in-!
Sc? creditable that so great a work
should stop for so little a cause, that
jp . . mo many scuffer because of an obstacle
that could not be removed. My
decision was prompt. I could make
up the difference in salary for the
first year; and that I did on my own
personal note, which I hold in my
I. hand, paid in full by my personal
check. I feel that I was justified in
making this contribution. No act
J of my political life has given me so
great gratification. I have never
asked reimbursement, have never
been repaid one cent and will never
accept one cent of this amount from
any source. * ;
The results speak for themselves.
- The legislature, on seeing them, by
an overwhelming vote sustained my
judgment and fixed the superintendent's
future salary permanently at
$6,000,000 per year, the figure I had
been happy to make possible temporarily.
Now the straps in that horrible
ward for women are gone. Most of
the patients instead of sitting idly
through endless days are happily employed
in such light tasks as they are
fitted to perform. This employment
is not compulsory, but is strictly voluntarily
on the part of the patients
themselves.
In the first place it is incorrect to
* state that the superintendent's salary
was increased from $3,000 to
$6 ,000. For this increase the su-i
perintendent gave up his claim to the
. use of a house with lights, water,
fuel, servants, vegetables supplied by
the State, carriage and pair of horses.
a driver and an automobile?prerequisites
or extras conservatively
valued at $1,300 per year and not including
the cost of up keep for the
automobile.
U?der the new system 15 negro
women scrubbers nave been dispensed
with, saving approximately $3,000
per year the amount of cash increase
in salary. On the farm nearly $4,500.
were saved last year as compared
to the year previous, this
;
amounting to one and one-half times
the cash increase in salary. Another
item of saving has been in the laun
dry. Previous to the administration
of the present superintendent the
laundry of that institution was done
by paid negro women. Now it is
done by negro patients, giving them
something to occupy their time and
saving to the institution approximately
$5,700 per year, nearly twice
the cash increase in salary.
The total saving in administration
expenses was more than $34,000 the
first year, a reduction of more than
11 times the cash increase in the su
perintendent's salary without regarding
the prerequisites. If the prerequisites
are considered the saving
in administration expenses will be
more than 20 times.
Parenthetically, I might say to the
physicians and prohibitionists that
previously whiskey was used in the
institution by the barrel. Now less
than a quart a month is used.
These economics have not brought
less attention, care or comfort to
! these unfortunates, for where there
! were employed under the previous
administration three physicians for
the whole time and three physicians
for part of the time, they now em-,
ploy nine physicians and three inturns
for all of the time and have
added 22 additional nurses whose
time is devoted to the care and alleviation
of the suffering of those patients.
The inmates are given better
food, served hot and palatable and in
| an inviting way, instead of being
I served cold and unappetizing.
The proof of the improved treatment
is shown by the reduction in
the death rate among the patients;
but better than all this, these poor
people are given cheerful occupation
and diversion and are treated now as
patients in a hospital, rather than
as criminals in a prison.?The State.
The Walrus a Horse.
We have all heard the story about
the customs official who puzzled out
the formula that "turtles is insects."
He established thereby an official
classification for amphibians, not at
all satisfying to scientists, but comforting
to importers, exporters and
other customs officers. Now suppose
somebody should import a live walrus,
and this same government employee
should admit it as a horse?
What a roar of merriment would go
up!
Science has proved that a walrus is
a sort of a horse. The proof is made
by means of a blood test. Walruses,
seals, porpoise, whales, etc., are
mammals that live in the ocean.
Therefore, they ought to be birds of
feather, as it were-^?their blood
should show some sort of relationship.
But the scientists have discovered,
that such is not the case. The
blood of a walrus will not react with
the blood of- a seal, nbr the blood of
a whale. But it reacts perfectly with
the blood of a horse, an ass or a
zebra. Therefore, a walrus belongs
to the horse family, says science.?
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LAST RIDE OF "MOSBY'S MEN]""
(Continued from page 3, column 3J
of those who gave up their lives for
the Confederacy.
A Mosby trooper had been killed
in a skirmish near Millwood, his
home neighborhood. Dying, he expressed
a wish to be buried at the
Old Chapel. The request was conveyed
to Mosby, and Mosby ordered
that it be done. But it was difficult.
Federal regimental headquarters
were at Berryville at the time. Nearly
a full regiment was stationed at
Millwood. Between the towns lies
the Old Chapel. Every road was
picketed by Union cavalry, and heavy
outposts guarded the ferries.
The boy's body was wrapped in a
blanket. Mosby assembled about 80
of his men. In the night they made
t their way to the Old Chapel, one of
the troopers carrying the body on
the pommel of his saddle. By candle
light the grave was dug, the soldiers
ollori + lw lArtlrlnor r\r?
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The light of the candle attracted
the attention of a Federal picket. He
dashed to Berryville with the cry of
"Mosby's men." Soon a line of blue
cavalry were riding full speed to the
attack."
They reached the Old Chapel as a
young woman of the neighborhood
began reading the burial service. The
Union troops threw out skirmishers.
To the continuous rattle of musketry
the girl read on calmly, unperturbed.
In the darkness, lighted only by the
flashes, the grave was filled.
By that time Mosby's men were
hard pressed in front and flank. But
the task had been accomplished and
Mosby succeeded in withdrawing his
detachment just as the Federal cav-,
airy were massing to charge.
This incident was characteristic of
JMosDy. His men and ms omcers 6aia
of him that the hotter the fight grew
the cooler he became and the more
resourceful.
The story of the night when he and
29 of his men rode through the Federal
lines and into Fairfax court
house, where he entered Gen. Stoughton's
headquarters without an alarm
being given and captured him and
many of his staff officers and took
them, with other prisoners, number
ing nearly 100, back into the Con
federate lines, has often been told.
As a cavalry scout Col. Mosby woi
the highest admiration from Gen
Stuart, to whom he at times render
ed valuable assistance. He alway
appeared when and where he wa
least expected, delivered his blow am
got away before he could be struck.
In the neighborhood in which h
operated Mosby was regarded as no
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an uiiinIACU ulcs&jiig. mo vci ? oul
cess brought down heavy sufferin;
upon the people, for in retaliatioi
Union commanders frequently order
ed residences and barns burned an
neighborhoods swept clean of ever
possible means of livelihood or sus
tenance.
But he was also regarded as
quiet, courteous man, always willin
to alleviate the sufferings of others.
Mosby came from the countr
which reared Turner Ashby; whic
supplied "Jeb" Stuart, with his mos
effective units and his most darin
riders; a country which gave "Stone
wall" Jackson to the Confederacy
which sired old "Jubal" Early, an
for possession of which the Gray an
the Blue were in constant battle fror
the war's start until its finish.*
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