Hawke's Bay Herald TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1879. TREATMENT OF THE INSANE.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5529, 4 November 1879, Page 2

Hawke's Bay Herald TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1879. TREATMENT OF THE INSANE.

.JjSr referring a few days since to the dts^ graceful; - condition • lof'. ; '6ui v i I&lVu&U'ch Asylums) we pointed out tlttU the subject was one i'itk which the Legislature "should •deaL j Of course, whatevcr~the Government! might propose to &<q in <&c wfty of improving- -tKe J 'asylums'w^uli riceaHliat' Parliament skc-ixld pass.,a, vote for the cost, j but that is not tlie mode of ■dealihg with the matter .which we had in mind>—the question is of r a magnitude far, tob'great-M- permi^^Hy'4eiAg • yeatml merely as an item on theesjinVft^s. Some w^eil-digested pkn sftould be submitted fo tie Legisktuiv^ so" tha£Ut nilg£t receive mature consideration,^ before the amount for carrying it out is voted. It is ;,easyjenoucrh: L tb>iygh r dOKe smbne^33fcMo this Scaso, perhaps more tlian in many others, it is not an easy thing r]to spend it In England, Hvhbre'th'e' treatment of the insane has occupied the earnfest - attention of prpmineiit; i&ell, for some years, vast slims' \»£' nSoricy nave been; expended wifchdut 'bib'tailing a sAtisj i factory result—aifact'.tliat.ia^vei^.eleai-ly demonstrated.hy-thc Bon* JJrahcis -Scott in a; receipt Lftumb^r| of the FoWtnlgMly. JRevieto. "For the'-last thirty years," he says[ "the Earl of''Sliaftsl&ury'arid the Lunjtcy Oommissjonei's^aye s had <entire control,; their recommendations have been.} . carried out. —their appeals to the humanity < ;.and! liberality of the ,public have'b'eeii' complied '.with. v Xll that money' cbuicl;, yield, all that architecture could.'bestow, in obedience to .the orders of "the Government or the suggestions of' the memcar . profession, has been freely, even lavishly, executed.' 1 ■ He, then.: proceeds .to showthat, notwithstanding < all this the recoveries have .fallen, off from 96 per cent, in 1859 to 7*9-per cent, in 1877. Inexamining into the causes of this untoward result a fact is elicited that should servo as ah instructive lesson in the treatment of. the insane in this colony. It is this — that a comparison of the several asylums - shows, that the maximum of numbers of ' inmates in one asylum and the minimum of land attached to such asylum give the minimum of recoveries and the maximum of deaths, and. So also the maximum, of deaths and the'minimum of' recoveries ; coincide,'with the minimum of employ l, nient. In other words —where a number, of- patients are crowded together without having a sufficiency of ground for proper exercise and recreation,, and where they are not kept employed in some way, there 1 are few recoveries aud many deaths; The same writer .points out ,tliat ■ while. <in,, England ,the: object in dealing with the ihsa'ne is limited to 'their safe custody, ,'in' Scotland/the , aijn is recovery,' or such restoration as will permit return to! the ■ occupations of ■ domestic life; With this view; the 'Scotch' .address themselves to the j training, to the healtbj to- the exercise', and to the contentment of the inmates of the asylums. It must'of cbiirse bo understood. ;that > Mrt .Hope's remarks 'do iot apply:to English private asylums, / where there .being.only a few patients in" .imej establishment', recoveries , arp, much' ! more frequent than in those,.where large, numbers •; of• inmates are • corigregatedv The Scotch have no large' asylums^ and: whit, is, still better each.establishme,nt has j ..largo grounds for the patients tot move abojit in. ■ They-have,-' tobj a greater amount.Of liberty than is generally accoried.toithe insane, and yet no ill-effects-have, resulted, "You may Upas's,", remarks Mr Scott, "unwarned from one end to another in several of the county asylums, by simply turning' the door-handle—no „ door . being locked, aud the outer, door in summer remaining as often open fas shut. ..Probably, no asylu.ni in Scotland" wil^ in future be built with \yalled airing courts" or locked doors." 'This condition of freedom wa« not accorded at bnce, .and.iu-. deed so far as regards the disuse of wailed airing courts the change was rather due to accident than design. In 1870, the Superintendent of the Fife and. Kinross" Asylum—D.Fraser—found that the'wall of ;the court required repairing. / "He acoorjdingly r had it pulled down, but finding} ythat he"did 'as'well without it he., did not rebuild iit. j. This freedom: has, ,=proved higTily beneficial, 'by the removal of the .irritation which forbed restraint.has upon the mind,, and. by leading the;.patients to exercise more self-restraint than they'feel disposed to practice when others seem to . be {doing it for .them. ; ;„ ,;,., ..., { The result of the experience ;of the 'sys-. tern in practice in Scotland leads'tq'.th'e' conclusion that in -.the. treatment,,.of ;;the > insane we must avoid congregating tliem together inrlarge numbers ;, we.must,give., them plenty of room for exercise ;..we: must keep them employed;' arid: we mxist render Jhein. jr^nqiiiland,,jcontent(.bjj-' vi-, j ,Tp.i'uifiLallthWei.condi-' tions will doubtless, require .'ihd; dxp'endiLSiclerable sum of money. But^g.lJ.axjaot "be money well spent? If.cb^jr.ttieibut■i ft tovtM' theoSLulQKteiifttft, Aon^ whp, a£% '" novv'befoft of srea;^6n'%e'!shall fl}ia,t^idbne t s sapßfacMonrpf.au^Wjing/Jtha.fcths flapney is bemg'-tWow^>away>a;s;l-it4rf\ao-wiiwith-ou't effecting.inb^j confinenxent 1 olct^^^tbiUnicfffeauate of pur felloyf-crefttnx&'s« /

A. meeting of/^ Hawked Bay EA|m. tion/Bftard wa|ib'Hye been kelj yefte'rday^Mittgribut^thfetfe being noi^uog^m tlitt m^etmk4HP sed^ :^^^ v -^ p PM$7 was^fepnl|r4iiembSi^of^i|ie bparii^ili 1 ;- districtauringSlie lastinonth. Eas beenin excess of any form6r period by move tllaii 250 scholars-.

- - Ilk til d-BrMi-Courhyeßterday^ morning,-; ;]?atri,ck> Quinlan, JJ^Bpbinp, andrThomas "Williams were eacunWcroV.and"'co3ts ioij drunkenness;' — "Walsh" : wW~ charged by Captain, Helander with, having sloypcfl himself oai itlio is. So'tUMil Oi-oss oil tli-4 l^st.ttip pttlio sUanier from Auckland-, i T^rStli " intent'- to ',jatfpi& . i % pdfMi&/ Dtiieridant said if the Captain* would be lenient lic-woMd/ stop^lportiand>vti?;K ft>;. pay him. Fined £i i .Tß,ttdrf66'Bfcs>. or, in default 14 clays' imprisoiimfint.—^Scullion v. Coward: CUim £B.l3B. „^[ri^scellps, ;»j^ared- i fo#^tatf&- * Terdlc^ ' ; fdf plaiiiiiit witii costs aiid 'CoinseVs lee $£ tiou tit J^ajjier, which "vyayheftrd last M^tt' .day ! Hffotint feFPftteift'^ffe'^-tiM)^ al'd' dilantity supplied— aiitV^a'ye^a verdict ior plaintiil; for £,8 16* $d"mffi Mi and counsel's fee ofo^e-gW^a;— tliV'c^se%f John! EvMs Or.O^li^alietli .sLoanC^s k&& kc&rtL'Mji' Lee appeared for defending It w|is a claini f6r £7. 5 s . f6i' feitMs in ■buildjing a lioiVse &b Fukehu. All the itemd.-wtjife tttsputed, it being oontendedtlVat iherworkcivva^-.not.fiui^ed^accoi'dpg . i to agreement. 'Judgment was"' ffiveii i or ' ! plainjtvff fp.r,i£2 )^,.thc / plaintifl, h.OsVc,veiy j to pay,:the I co^ts l o|..the,.da.y.,}»jt6.e djeteAaent; to payvtiho cdst^o'Ee'llieiiproyiouSchoaiing// r=-l J apkei ! and ffiggs »v.T.Eingste ? ad:!'jiA:; jUdgn&iitP .summons r for 1 £2 ql9s.^ -Order.for payment 6s Amount ■6n r '-tho4Stlis ■»Nrfv^mber, ea bSf"'4fr- ; ftgMW i! ofie > ta©tttk'S ; imprisonment* y .., ..^.,',, „., . k . ■Wk-lsflliftt "to,', tiief tetees 'ihi&KUf fieldj&iid_.Uo.^s e|tito. ire Jikely W jMnge_ with. Mi' Joe. a^aS^ielGrjor, the, purchase, b^.Mnk fcfc- Wie 1 J of %e ( ffrh\ k^ a f Valuation taken by Messrs' Close and Pulfiord J the , ainounUto' b6^aidi in tbill^ ■ for whiohf^curityi§-idbe rf gi^eii; W •'• v.-^r_ T^lie^J^M^Qß^tHq^cret^y^ l^ 1 ! Sdap^i^'^^^^^dtj|;Ajriflg u Yl^' to JHftpier las<ijs?eek>£rUe i Joofc 1 ,t111e., ppport r tunity i; jd£j.Oo}tittgfbifceS theidis^rfct L with; .whrcli^he i^Ap.-.mTi'dli pld&sod.-' He.considered it, he eaicl, the'^best'sehool^hei had iseen^in .theircpionyj/an-di-in! J nert l trtiejs ) absence of gaikly o^fldmehUtion, and eompletMesa. : »dE o aMarigementir . the^ Ttery i beau ideM;o£ia'State;school ; ;'-v .-. > L-ui

Citizen writes_t<). us com^liUdii^g dl tlie ann6yanc& ca^d ; .- .by, r , the, ., K incessant howling throughout thVniglit "and "during Sjindays .of aufpg that, is.,kept .tie^up^at Jie^sifs Plark^aiid;SonX store mßCerschell-street;.'j-,v Q.ur.MO.QrrespoiJkdent^spsKes ' x ~so, know^Liheroare iiny :nfeans/Df .coaipelling.j thi'e abateihesfcofe'ithp : nuisance/ .•. We-<,.aroi not Ware of any, but Ve f m r ay Vomarktbats in the same* Vioihi^f oil -the 1 top^of the hill, thei;e are sonie/lcWdl^' indiriduals,. .who •loje their neighbors And keep clogs -that discourse " awe'et "niusic v during the stjilljr hours," and -one -of the owners -of -the i animals v was j.cppi.plaining v the .other, day ttKat i\ii dbggie iiad been poisoned. A l AJs the Prince ,p£^aicTs, Biiffcliday falls on a Monday the" toth inst. mil' be a public holiday at all Tokt Offices in the [colony. At the ' Telegraph Office, Sunday hours-will ibe obsery'edi >.; . : <:f

We are requested to "state, that it was a person &to whom • Mr. -Edward Ashjon. sold a ticket, who drew a good- h'orsean Cameron's ,"£SQQ(X sweQp,, and}fnot Mr Ashton, himself.

A rowing match came off yesterday morning , on : the' Tutaekui'i- 1 course ;between two crews— .senior, and junior— of the Telegraph Howing Club. Agood start ■.was effected, both- crews' getting offi-wdll together, ibut the;; juniors sopni out-paced their opponents in the first 150 yards, and won iis-they liked. - The-seniors rowed. in . the XJnion ; R..G;S cartel,; and t the juniors in the Telegraph Club_!s_*elinkef. The following;*-! w.ere r $10; crews^-f Juniors, : Hay, bow ; Poole, 2 ; |*e^.cork, 3*; Yates, stroke. bow ; r ,Har-r rington,' "2;"ltpys,,3 fjHamptbn, strpke.' ' " Mr J. A. Eearden announces in another colunan that, ; he.'has accepted the; .appoint? ment of head-mast'er,of St. .Mary's school.' at Meanee:;: ;jWe Jiave no 'doubt that ,-Mr Rearden will 'prove" an acquisition to tlie school. , He has. Had 'more ; than 25 years'; experience 'as a' teacher, and* -for ten ; years° h ! e had the largest s*cKbbl in Napier; _"•' l His •: ability as a master has jbe^n ptpWd by the; progress madeby'his pupils; .matfypf those who owe their tuition ,'. to 'hjm.bemg now in good positions in. the" Government 'service. t<l>l A r (} The following shark • story *cbmes/ffoni • Macquarib ''''Harboiv ri .Twor Men -were: out' fishing' wiieEi^hfey observed the-'dor'sal' : fik of what ap'ppa^ed;'fb ; be a 'large shark' close"a t* thb; stern of 'their, "little vesselv While tli&y' were looking at the creature' it raised itself and, mostjaggressively put its f prmi'ciab'le head ' over the stern of the boat. ■,■ TJiej men .were alarmed^ "for.. "a", " Vicious looking mouth, ' with serried rows ' 'of teeth, in'oclaimed j tiie^ crea.turo to be a tiger shark. They' took.up their paddles and sti'uck t]ie : n\onster, one of the paddles.; • , gping into hisj open mouth.. -: After showing some resistance, the ' shai'k lef t, .miich to the.relief, of the fishermen. .Fromcur■s.pry observation our informant stated, that the shark must have been over 12 feet' long. It is hot often that a shark 'or other marine monster will attack human , beings when not absolutely in the water., The well-known fragrant, sweet-scented, I or lemon verbena (Lippia- oiiriodora) is regarded, among the ' Spanish people as a flue stomachic and •> cordial. .It is either used in the form of a cold decoction, ,; sweetened, of 'five or six j leaves are put ; into a- tea-eupj-and hot tea poured upon ; fhem. Tho author ;pf a recent work, -''-'- Among the Spanish People," says that the .flavor of. the. tea. thus prepared "is . simply delicious, and no one who has drunk hi's Pekoe with it will ever again drink: it without; a. sprig of lemon , verbena. " And lie further makes a st&te- ' ment, more important than all the rest,' if true, that if this, elecqetion be used one need " never suffer from flatulence', nqver „be made ■ nervous or old maidish, never •Have cholera," diarrhoea, 1 or loss "of appetite." „ , ; . • „ "A few evenings ago/"- says Vanity Fair, " Lord- Sydney, ' "Lord Salisbury, IXord Duffierin, and Lord Hartington were assembled together, when they were asked by a 'lady which of them had told thegreatest number of lies in his life. Lord' Sydney at once declared that he had never told, any, upon which 'Lord Salisbury remarked, "reflectively,^that it was. his' and Dufferin's ; tradV,tp; tblt^lies.; ;Thb 'iady then said ' Count' .Sdivpuvaloff' "declares that he never told '_a'"_. lie in his life.' Upon jthis ..Lprd, IlartS.ngton, observed, solemny, 'Ah ! lie has never yet grasped the meaning :o£,.th^, i W;OV.d. > ".'i , .... . ..,.,,

The newly*fjj|med KeW Zealan&JSLgri § ciiUurdlfiom||lp$ advertises in tlijs|&pn § VrUafc ftppears to me ("The MedlerjUnShe Sydney Mail) to be a singular diraKJrry. _In the last issue of the Home 2V T e«w*wnich dQSmtfkfodnd. edUpled wjtn. those intcr--51 clergymen j/TiVe pdporcSn^l^^rena geiiclSmen to the adult ma^fe population of Greatj Britain is c c^^L^Wffigpllke proportionate t^^fio-ipercSa^^eJ-'^Gove S^ i ; -p^tejifaptJAjMJ® jiite/esfeing^Q $% .statlsjiekilj and tlidre" migjit evett IJe a 'pkctfcal aptiM^atiottjKiedilcibie. .fo?j.thejk advdiltagti tff tliilily-pdpulaied-cdloriies. " i . Aiitild^WWei: s&frfr iM«e# ! for ajsum d£ nissy tB' Be 7 pldcM ul <sri' We Westeru,^stralia, estimates ;fi)r, the imH»6fMion. ofmoia^s^ra^lHiids inip'the/ frosts ot r! that^ol^y ; ,~;/Aipp7itian't;diid|^-' tottk tl\4l^niu4gp,inent ,i l and> } sq^eniejjt thoroughlyfaccjimatiscd'. 'lif-ulo v ! * itiimM^ kil toa'are^t^TJiiiWdWatc^ o^e s r ';4o,Odo4ail^f^af S of ail kinds, also l*;ijlooOT|4^ Tlie# roAdj lose andudlly lieWeeOji pu^anfffive nilllion pf >snufcs. irThfe|e r wilf Voigh .ovot, 1,50d000 Ibr, 3O,O(t 1 4pk.-,4ind,^;Qoo t^ol|^dfes L fis§j ■ npthingjoff ;the milts t flifcoM,intio xm sCUn \ teW wM 'yiebMtS' lS : jise <f llie jaW nut/alsd the^liaMlitytiO: * accident^ ronl' los'se iiuts.' « • •-. / .'.7/ . I f Li ;.^£4- i correspondent of ' : the ' "iVeui 1 . ~lterdld, ■wrltingj^from <Birrningli^m^ says/ > iSn r^m<)ld.iSJi l owß9. .lijJsii.WoJfKpepj ap^,as^o,rt ;i , men£ t Q^£r:Aiqericaii',imade ,j|6pdsji: an4i,i i^kiife'^'a -^air-idr 3 'shears/jpfferoAi to gifre^thfliUiDibn.dEßO if .ariytbnbjOf Mdi _mejQ ,| in' a 7 nionthY%oalcVproduce' ! 6ne.i*atti of Aeju»'"fclr_ "gbbd'ois- Isample?" vx V; ; Ito :; ' i: ' ' : ' 'i'i'f v:iu;iip'jo j^Jnj theufiistnct oi.lTftmbjoff 1 , ,one'^ J tjb!e,' . ; proxiAccs > ( in Kitasjiaj r,', sipte f , ,ft*S4o?e than^^OQOriilhslJitajits/,! Out. viheroc r.aio. onlyf Biv.'Sbliools,t;witn!(.An'-averAgo 1^ n t6ndance dfiTabbut' 3aiO:-boyi? and giils.' ai>i^dtn^ 29i009 rb r ubl6s< wj^/dhnually devoted to elementary &ottb0l»»' rt biit |n $i6 "?B&#iB7V&7s Idi? l^O0O : bduldt ''•lKf '«M L mp¥e i! ( th 4; n : lOO'^illa^i' tlierfe isib^clibbiUt dU l! f ' l< , J '- Jb ';" 1 ' : '•'■• , v\^o are mfosnled • by : petsopß M& ib.ays ,jj?isi|fed sdnie Pfc,tHeobattlißMdB in,'Sojith 'jAfrifea'^ays -SDhe . Cdlanies. ahfo lndia) that ' whiles : the bodies'of'Zulus and ? of ihorfeesf and cattle slain there ihaVe beenidevburgd"' in a few days by the carrion croWs/the bod: es of white men, have" been left unJcq>m hed Iby< 1 by <r tb,esejscaybn^ ! e(s, J '-^Snis was j;obs€ rvbd partifiuMrly 'onHhe.fiefd Jdf lsfia-^ 3 Kfic^tinie^jPtep ,jthe disaster to out troojSs .:thde,"when'tti y e. 1 bodies' of ih'e'fiufop^an soldiers, werje.left,, untpuohed>. t >yhi^|thj6^e.^ of wxefJZjU^S] i-weie, ,. almost vourecj. J3?hQ'reason!/pf;.ithi3 .preference' <ff -'tjie birds l for.the f flesjai <& ;black,men, is; difficult. toiuuderstandii 'Possijbily the iajst : '. , of^thesßuropeansbeirig ciothqd, while the "Zulus were naked, may help to.i explain the Icircuinitanc'e; though (bWii solution, itf ;nptjentirely satisfaotory^as^some of the <bj§d>est'o J f out fallen troops were stripped by ihe-2-ulus; '■-'< '•'■'•: -'■"■ I 1'" -i..M fi-.fcj,, J^angkpl?,, lnj.Sjam,, i8 ;ij a ,jlap,e., The main , "..street/ ' of 1 tho, ,' .iWn. is , iihe ; . , i riv£Jr- < Meinam f the side',"§txeets"" I :being ,'smqlliartificiaL creeks exit *t_ right angles to' the river. The houses are :aIL built- on raf ts y which 'are anchored along ; the side 6f-' |he river. 1 / Al! -traffic: and' passengers pass up ! and dowrfin boats'in aiid^-stream. One goes along shopping in a boat and l makes one's 1 purchases "without 'getting. iout. When a man wants r! to change' his 1 ! residence hd just' Weighs/a)ttch\6r and Soiiis* • hii jwhole house, into, the?nexf street. , \^''"' " "The- •? 11 hncCwataw I. Tintes states '<: that, several trucks • laden i -with- baxxlks;; of: timber, having the name df the "vrood andi the] measurement painted 'on' .'e'ach^ba'ulky 5 yreve seiitby 'fail oii Mdnday ; likh- from 1 ' Feilding. t The timber, ya's'pn its'.'Jvj'ay '-jt^ Wellington,' Vherei^' '"prill, b'c' shipppa vi()u i() England per' Kakaia. ' It” seems. \ that' Mr : Ma|colm, of tlie Makin'o mill, ' being' anxious to test^ieiyali^e.iof ; Ne^, Zealand timjber^in the Home „mdrket",yhas J ' ; c(^ter7 mined. t ; p send 1 ix> Jfipnclpn a' trial shipment; of totara,)rimui and matai. .' Tliere jean be' no i question; jihatf.-sbme !.of:i;.bursna,tivff " woids; are for .furniture . purposes! , equaj. , t» anyj .woods' . > in. the ;wprJ4, t andiwe , f o^py. , thajfc itheir lvalue 1 : onlyy require^ \ tp ,\ bo; known to ensure a ready market^for 'anyi ambunt we can export? prizes y in tth&'-^game' of '- 'cSlbnial politics (ramarksH the/Auckland^ $t& r) v 4p, J nor, -asia 1 fule>. ga:to;tlie wealthy,/, iThoi 1 'fickle • ibeihg;:- blind/.-distiibutes jheii favorS'-with an ■•• impartial'' hand. o lt , has| been "so ;in ; 'thfe J colony; -and^iVictoria !at \Ug. 'present mdment presents an'illus'J.tratioii^f ihCsaitie tendency:' GVJr Grah'ani O^erry kept a little greengroc'erV sKbpih 1 .Coilingwpod. /it (i oneT~time. The late. ■ rMitiisterisi^ , , whip, ,' Mi* parrel) "v^^ l r Xnaljly. a^AVaiter;, 1 arid subsequently.. 'carridcV; oc a" s'qiajU " .puplicjhpuse,, ,' eqifi^lcd :j^lie, : ' Metropolis '.,H,obe!* : i n / i Castl l eniaine, < '' ) , ) A. .' present; Minister,, the Bfpn t , J, B^iPa)ier§onl' •was- forj iaanyj.iyeftrs.ipoundkeeper at,, Elphinstpne; better :known ,iib, early Yicj - ;- ''toiuans: as i Sawpit Gully, •aboiut.iseven ■ J miles from Castlemaine, on the Melbottrnef ,rpad : . ''.-•■■ ' • ■ ':•• '• '- ! ':.:•.. .':.■; !i.

There are .five Grenerals in the ; Russian' arniyr whps.e names are W follows .-f : Gutqienosoff, Pulnienosoff, Sawineubsbff^ Blpwnmen,Oßoft, an'd.'Nosebegon..., „ i