THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL. PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 28, 1913.
HOW PUBLIC MONEY IS EXPENDED IN
MANAGEMENT OF STATE INSANE ASYLUM
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Business End of Salem Insti
; tution Is Conducted on
Systematic Basis,
Uy Fred Ixxkloy.
Salem. Or.. Sept. 1'7. From October 1.
1910. to October 1. 91 2, there were 300.)
patients under treatment at the Oregon
State Insane Asylum. The dally av
erage for the two years was 1677 pa
tients. Directly, or indirectly, every
; citizen of Oregon is interested in the Or
egon Insane asylum. Directly through
having relatlveH or friends there as pa
tients, indirectly as taxpayers whose
money is used in the maintenance ol
the institution. I recently spent sev
eral interesting: hours in looking over
the asylum. A. E. Strang, the engineer
took me through the building. Mr.
Strarg bas been with the institution al
most continuously since 188-1. He
started with Superintendent Carpenter
under whom he worked three years, then
under Dr. Joseph!, Dr. Lnne, Dr. Row
land, ljr. Payne. Dr. Calberth and Dr.
H. E. J.ee Stolner.
"Wlfat do you want to see?" said Mr.
Strang.
"I want to start at the basement and
go entirely through the Institution."
"Very well." he said. "We will start
in the peeling room and work our way
through. To prepare food for from
1200 to 1500 patients and several hun
dred employes is a task of some mag
nitude. We cook two kettles of corn."
aid Mr. Strang. "Each kettle holds
80 gallons of corn on the cob. Here is
a machine that peels all of our carrots
and potatoes."
Mr. Strang made the connections and
started the machine. lie put a balf a
peck of potatoes in and within a min
ute they were peeled much less waste
fully than a person could peel them by
hand. One of the patients who worked
In the peeling room came up and ex
plained the process.
He said: "You see, a Jet of water
plays on the potatoes constantly and
washes away all the peeling. They re
volve rapidly and the bottom and sides
of the revolving: tank are coated with
carborundum. The bottom of the re
volvlng tank Is arranged in a series of
mills and as it revolves it makes the
potatoes Jump against the sides. Their
rapid motion against the sides and bot
tom of the tank scrapes off every par
ticle of skin except the eyes which
have to be taken out by hand."
rTom the reeling room we went to the
milk room. Each day the wagon brings
in from the asylum farm. 36 five gallon
cans of milk for use at the. main build
ing. "Here," said Sir. Strang, "is the
preserving room. The patients In
charge of one of the employes, put up
thousands of gallons of tomato catsup,
Jelly, Jam and canned fruit. Just now
they ure putting up several hundred gal
lons a day. '
"We have one of the most complete
and effective underground tunneling
systems that I know of. I am going to
take you through the underground tun
nels to show wou what a time-saving
and labor raving device it Is. Each of
the wings has ttiree wards. The in
firmary building has five wards and
there are two receiving wards. The tun
nel with its railway track and small
cars supplies all of our 32 wards. All
supplies aie sent from the kitchen in
these large tanks to the. dumb waiters
under tne wards. All supplies nf every
kind can lr expeditiously delivered by
means of this tunnel svxtetn All of
the dirty clothes are sent down chutes
and taken on cars to the laundry and
the clean clothes are sent back the same
way."
We walked through at least a mile of
tunnel which passed under every part
of the various buildings
"You will see.'' said Mr. Strang, "that
We ntlllie every pan of the tunnel, (in
the floor of the tunnel the track Is laid
for the cars. The roof of the tunnel
serves as a sidewalk whenever needed.
On each side of the tunnel are the hot
water pipes carrying hot water for do
mestic use. The elertrlc light and tele
phono wires are a.so carried on the side
of the tunnel as well as the pipes whh-h
bring the hot air from tlie central heat
ing plant. The rulvanlann of this sys
tem is that Inst.-ad of having all pipes
burled and having to dig them up for
a, long distance to find a leak, they are
Under constant Inspection anil can he
gotten at instantly In case there Is any
trouble.
"We have recently Installed com
plete telephone system throughout the
entire Institution. We take tlie current
from the. electric light system, trans
form It in n storage battery arul the
Storage battery furnishes pnwer for the
lights On our telephone svstrm switch
board Our wires are In cables and
the cables run through cohdults. Since
we have Installed the central heating
System there are no fires nor furnaces
In the-" whole institution except in tlie
kitchen.
Fir Sanger Lessened.
"At the end of each wing there Is a
firs extinguisher and 75 feet of f)r
hose and there ure fire service stand
pipes st the end of each wing, in 'ad
dition to this we have a complete auto
mttlo sprinkling system. When Dr.
Bteiner came here we had three fur-
naoesVttfi'nVr Ch wing hut 'he had the
cantraH heating plant install, d w hich
has pwven a wonderful Improvement
both from the otandpolnt of economy
and lessened danger of fire."
Ws stopped at the tool room. Mr.
Btrang smiled as he said: "Here Is one
place where we have no trouble about
, tools being lost or forgotten. A pa
tient ha charge of this department. He
takes .receipt from every worker who
n 'B'o o' .; rjrr
takes out a tool and if that tool doesn't
corne buck he raises such u disturbance
that the tool is returned. The patients
simply do not dare to come back with
out the tools they took out."
Re-entering tlie underground tunnel
system we emerged a little later in the
laundry, ilr. StrsnK introduced rue to
Mr. Kelly who has charge of the laun
dry. Severn! dozen patients were to be
seen working: at tlie various processes
in the laundry among them Ouita a few
Chinamen. "We utilize Chinamen in the
laundry us must of them ni'e more or
less accustomed to this kind of work
and ure good workers. Wc have six
washing machines and four centrifugal
extracters. Our mangles for the flat
wotk such as towels. tablecloths,
sheets, etc.. are of the very latest pat
tern, in fact all of our machinery. In
cluding our drying racks and Ironing
equipment is of the best and latest pat
tern. As you will notice the laundry is
light, well ventilated and cheerful. We
handle from I3R.000 to 140, non pieces
each week. I'atientH liuve almost en
tire cliargt- of the work under my ku
erviskui. Every piece is marked :in you
see, with the number of the waul and
tlie name of the patient so that it is an
easy task for the distributor to put the
clean clothes in the proper bin. All of
our hot water for our laundry is heated
from the exhaust steam from tlie engine
which would otherwise be wasted. Our
metal dryers will dry any piece put on
them in ;!0 minutes. They are neat and
(impact ami a Mg improvement on tlie
old style of drying."
Taking me to a smaller room, Mr.
Iey said' "Here are two vats of soap
which 1 have made. There are live
tons ill i:icl; vat. I make about ;:! tons
of soap a veil'."
Kroin to,- s"ap romn we went to the
women's work room win h is separated
from the main part of Hie laundry.
Here all hand ironing on collars, cuffs.
shirts, wai.Ms. ruffles, etc., is done, "one
of the greatest improvements we have
made in the lauirflry department Is the
installation of a s'enljzation room
where the clothing of all patients who
have contagious dlKeases or who are
inmates of the filthy ward are treated.
Last year a considerable number of
patients as well as myself, had to go
to the pest house from catclfing con
tagious diseases from handling clothing
f patients who had diphtheria, scarlet
fever or other ontaglotis diseases We
have stamped out tlie spread of con
tagious diseases by Installing tills ster
ilization room."
From the laundry we went to tin cen-
tial heating plant. "Here is one of
the Improvements made by Tr. Hteiner
that has aid fori Itself many times
over in salisl ac t lofi and in the saving
f money. I'nder the old system wi:
used i'j burn about 4 01 ft coids of wood
a ye:ir at .in expense of $4 40 a cord. It!
ohi about $7" a year lust to put in
the wood. These oil burning engines
l.ave eliminated the need of storage
room for tlie wood. They have elimi
nated all of tlie waste of handing fuel.
They do not burn out the furnaces as
the coal or wood used to. We burn
about :'.T barrels of oil a day In sum
mer and in midwinter, it takes about
MJ barrels. There are 42 gallons In a
barrel and each barrel costs $1.03 i so
that the oil costs u little less than two
and a half cents a gallon.
"We have two wells, one Tit.feet deep
and an auxiliary well SI feet deep.
From the- first well we pump 120,000
gallons' of water, each 24 hours, for
drinking and domestic purposes. We
use about 600,000 gallons of water from
another source for irrigation purposes.
Here In the central heating plant we
have an air compressor for the elevator
in the new receiving ward more than a
thousand feet distant."
From the central heating plant w
went to the commissary department
where long rows of barrels of . syrup
nuge plica oi bhcks oi salt ana -sugar,
w ' - I. itH j lit i lis ZZl
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Top Receiving ward, Oregon state asylum.
Hottom Section of asylum buildings at Salem. st
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long shelves of groceries, gave tne more
the iuipression oi a big wholesale gro
cery house than anything else.
Extensive Commissary Department.
As an Indication eff the extent of the
transactions carried on in the commis
sary department, during the period from
October 1, 1910, to September 30, 1912,
the asylum used $fi8,114 worth of meat,
$ Hi, 006 worth of butter, $52,186 worth
of fuel. $21,677 worth of flour, $8782
worth nf' sugar, over $3000 worth of to
bacco, $5643 worth of coffee. During
this two year period the articles con
sumed for the asylum amounted to
$323,471.55."
We went nearly a quarter of a mile
through a-'tunnel and came up into the
new receiving and convalescent ward.
"This building," said Mr. Strang, "is ab
solutely fireproof. The floors are of
hollow tile and concrete. The columns
are of concrete and no wood of any kind
was used in the erection of the build
ing." The receiving and convalescent ward
Is a beautiful building both from the
exterior and the Interior. There is a
note of harmony and good taste
throughout the entire building. "Tbo
viewpoint has changed within the past
century wonderfully in the treatment
of those who are mentally afflicted,"
said Mr. Strang. "The very 'name.
'lunatic' indicates that they thought
that demented peoplo were afflicted by
the changes of the moon. They used to
think, them afflicted by God and they
thought It not right to try to alleviate
their sufferings. They chained them up
like wild beasts. Today every help
that science can give is used in en
deavoring to cure those who are men
tally disturbed. b'or example here, is
room wiiere all kinds of batrs are
given to patients. Klectrlo light baths,
shower baths, baths in Which patients
recline on a canvas sling and stay for
hours to reduce their temperatures."
Opening another door Mr. Strang said:
"This is the X-ray room where the Bur
geons no longer have to guess but can
definitely ascertain what they want to
kn-jw." We went through tho etheriz
ing room, the operating room, which Is
one of the moHt perfect in the state
and which b so built that no shadows
ure cast. It Is all In marble and white
enamel.
We went through beautiful rest rooms
and recreation rooms, through long pol
ished hallways, to a room all of whose
windows were of red glass. . The light
In the room was a brilliant red. "When
a patient comes here in a sullen or
passive state they are put in this room
to stimulate them," said Mr. Strang.
when they need to be quieted or their
nerves are in an excited state, they are
put In this room," he said, ns we ent
ered a room all of whose w indows were
of blue glass. "Wo use throughout the
building the toresta sash. 1 ou will
notice the windows are five by seven
Inches. It gives the effect of the
small leaded glass panes used In the
small cathedrals, only in this case. In
place of being of lead they are sheet
steel bars but tho effect of confine
ment Is reduced by the artistic treat
ment. A large number of patients are
discharged as cured from this ward
which under the former methods would
not have recovered. This ward, being
entirely disconnected from the main
building is not associated in the minds
of tlie patients with the asylum. It Is
considered a hospital and mnny patients
come hero who are never ent to the
asylum proper at all.
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