12 The Statesman. Salem. Oregon. Friday. October 31, 1947
New State Hospital Treatments Effective
Public Asked to
Aid Prevention
Of Mental Ills
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The Orecon SUte hospital (front entrance shewn La top picture) has used a shock treatment for nine
years with eonsiderabie food effect. In center picture, the doctor In charge of'such treatment turns
n the current while nurses coard the patient. The tar in the patient's mouth is to prevent Jaw frac
ture, Below is shown the library, part of the recreational division which is declared to have much
to do with perma-nent cure. Mabel E. Hayles, in charfe, plans the amusements, the entertainments,
assists in interesting; patients in hobbies and cares for the library of some 3000 volumes.
Independence
Retired Letter
Carrier Dies
INDEPENDENCE, Oet: 36-(Special)-
Edward Marion Wunder, 65,
longtime resident of Independence
and retired rural letter carrier,
died in Dallas Wednesday. Fune
ral services will be held at the
local Presbyterian church at 2
pm. Saturday, with the Rev. John
Hood officiating. Burial will be
made at BeTcrest Memorial, park,
Salem, under direction of Walter
L. Smith mortuary.
A native,, of Iowa and an Inde
pendence resident since 1905, when
e brought his bride here from
Boise by horse and wagon, Mr.
Wiinder received his appointment
as a rural mail carrier in 1915 and
began serving an original route
of 24 miles by horse and buggy.
At- his retirement 30 years later
he had a motor route of 79 miles,
with 1,500 patrons.
Me served as president of the
Oregon Rural Letter Carriers as
sociation and was national repre
sentative for that body at two of
its annual conventions. He was
an elder of Calvary Presbyterian
church, and a jewel member of
Valley lodge 42, I.O.O.F.
Surviving the his wife, Mrs.
Artensia Belle Wuhder of lode
pendence; one son, C. B. Wunder,
Independence; two daughters, Mrs.
Maebelle Pickens of Aberdeen,
Wash., and Mrs. C. L. Marsters
of Dallas; a sister, Mrs;, Charles
Kenney of Moro, Ore.; two grand
sons and one granddaughter. "
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Gibson Flies Own
Plane to Corvallis
PORTLAND, Oct. 30.-)-The
plane crash that took the lives of
Oregon's three top officials did
not stop State Senator Angus Gib
son's flying career.
The 60-year-old senator took
delivery of a new four-place air
plane here today and personally
flew it under low clouds to Cor
vallis. Gibson, a pilot in World War I,
recently took up flying again.
Turkeys do not come from Tur
key, but from North America.
By Lillle L. Madsen
Staff Writer. The Statesman
jvieaicai ana gqcial sciences
have come a long way since the
Oregon State hospital was set up
in 1880,' but the general public
had stood almost still, and until
that public wakes up, progress in
the recovery of the mentally ill
is hampered in three ways pre
vention, cure and re-establish
ment in normal life, Oregon State
Hospital officials said this week.
It is too bad" one staff doc
tor added, "that there isn't some
form of shock treatment we can
give the public who is so indiffer
ent to a disease which actually
fills more hospitals today than all
other diseases combined."
I asked how the public could
assist in the prevention.
"Many of the more than 2i600
patients now at the hospital need
not have been mentally ill at all,"
I was told. "Like the . juvenile
crime wave, the, parents in too
many cases are largely -at fault.
And we are not referring to here
ditary mental illness. Hereditary
in mental illness is highly over
rated. The actual fear of heredity
is far more frequently a cause."
Lead Children to Maturity
Every child should be educated
to be mature, a psychiatrist at the
Oregon hospital stated, continuing:
"He should be permitted to be
a personality, to assume respon
sibility. Too frequently, parents
think only of thrilling' their
child, of interesting and pleasing
him. Or perhaps, the parents are
too busy with their own, interests
to take a personal, interest in their
child. He is sent to professional
and commercial entertainments.
The child frequently develops into
an immature adult. He; cannot
face unpleasantness. He . avoids
all difficulties, large or f rnall, un
til something comes along he can
not avoid, and so, as a means of
escape, he develops an illness.
That illness can be very real. Our
case histories show that it is from
homes where children are-taught
to be busy, to have chores, re
sponsibilities, that our normal
adults come."
The doctors pointed out that
the public supports, educational
campaigns for the prevention of
many illnesses, but the societies
in mental hygiene have difficult
going. Yet statistics show us that
now, at some time or other, some
member out of every five fam
ilies in the United States behaves
so abnormally that he lands in a
mental hospital, public or private.
Proper education in mental hy
giene could prevent many of these
cases, the psychiatrists believe
Can Public Assist?
Could the public assist in the
cure?
To gain a more rapid headway.
better housing facilities, more
equipment and more help are
needed, the hospital staff declar
ed. And the help should be better
trained for this kind of work, staff
members added.
The Oregon hospital has .beeri
fortunate in having some of the
top doctors in their lines. These
have been asked to speak to and
work with national committees.
But more specialists are needed.
Shock treatment, first, widely
heard of by the general public
during the war, was brought to
the Oregon State hospital in 1938.
During its first six years, 11,000
treatments were given to 1021 pa
tients. Of these treatments, 4430
were metrazol and 6674 were
electric. Metrazol was the fifs
form of treatment used in the
Oregon hospital, and illnesses re
sulting from diabetics were, the
first treated by shock. The elec
tric shock machirie was "added in
1941.
Shock Treatment Effective
Doctors at the Oregon State
hospital report that shock treat
ment has proved effective also in
improvement of ward behavior, in
terminating recurring stupor, in
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overcoming .refusal to c;it and
tendency to invalidism, and in
modification of aggressively vio
lent behavior. Treatment is given
twice a week and improvement
usually shows after the fourth or
fifth treatment, although in some
oases it may take longer. Usually
eight treatments are given. The
use of curarp, a drug of South
American origin, has been found
valuable in prevention of ill ef
fects from the electric . shock
treatments and in allowing treat
ment in , otherwise too-risky pa
tients. Approximately 30 patients are
on shock treatment continuously
at the Orcgpn hospital. One of
the patients who had received
treatments snid she had feared it
at first but did not recall a thing
about it, not even, she added, get
ting ready for it, so after the first
treatment "she no longer minded
it. Following the treatment, the
patients fall into a sound and
peaceful sleep.
Therapies Outlined
After the series of treatments,
an observation period of at least
two weeks is insisted upon, dur
ing which occupational recreation
therapies are outlined. If a re
lapse is going to occur, it Usually
does so within the two-week per
iod. Finally, I asked about the pub
lic's share in the ree.stablishment
in normal life.
And in that, the doctors agreed,
is where the public fails badly.
Too frequently when a person is
cured and released from the state
hospital he in treated as an abject
of aversion or curiosity. There is
no more disgrace in mental illness
than in, appendicitis, the doctors
pointed out, adding that frequent
ly the released patient is more
normal, has a better concept of
what goes on, than the person
who looks upon him as a curi
osity. Plans Recreation
Before leaving the hospital. I
went to the recreational division.
a division which seems to have so
much to do with permanent cure
and release. Here I found Mabel
E. Hayles in charge. It is she who
plans the amusements, the enter
tainments, assists in interesting
patients in hobbies and cares for
the library of some 3,000 volumes.
While magazines are welcome, the
hosiptal should be (and these are
not Mrs. Hayles' words, but mine)
no dumping ground for the soiled,
torn old magazines that have been
resting in attic or garage. Such
are of no theraputic help. Good
new magazines are welcomed.
Hobby magazines, garden and
home beautification and the bet
ter class of motion picture maga
zines are. among the more popu
lar. Everything the patient reads,
Mrs. Hayles pointed out, is cho
sen with the utmost cae. Like
proper diet will cure some a 11
nessesj. proper mental diet will
help greatly in others, ssfie added.
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One of the finest and most modern pieces of printing equipment available waa tmtalled la th Job
printing department of The' Oregon Statesman recently. It is a Miller Automatic Major preaa. ship
ped directly from the factory at Pittsburgh, Pa. Installed cost approximated S2O.OO0. Shown admiring
the gleaming press as it went into operation are Charles Rowan (left), apprentice pressman, and Lloyd
Arnold, foreman of The Statesman's Job pressroom.
Death Takes
A. L. Mallery
Albert Lea Mallery, a veterans'
counselor of the state employment
service's Salem office, died un
expectedly f a . h?ait attack
Thursday afterninm while visiting
at the home of D. Eh Dotson, for
mer employment service officer
here, on route 3 soutn of Salem.
Mr. Mallery, late resident of
1063 Oak st., leaves a widow,
Olive; a son, James S. Mallery of
Eugene; two daughters, Mrs.
Helen Hakanson, Portland, and
Doral H. Mallery, Klamath Falls,
and one grandchild.
Funeral arrangements re being
made at Clough-Barrick funeral
company.
STATE ROADS NORMAL
All Oregon roads were normal
j Thursday with rain in many sec
tions of central and western Ore
gon, State Highway Engineer
R. H. Baldock reported. Lowest
temperature of 21 degrees was re
ported at Austin.
U. S. fiie lorn in 1948 totaled
$4.01 per capita.
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theater during the war in a "one
woman show", has turned her
talents to the literary field.
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