The Cotulla Record (Cotulla, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 36, Ed. 1 Friday, November 25, 1949 Page: 4 of 6
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 10-19
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COTULI.A, TEXAS
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Laughed out loud when I heard
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So I went to see him, armed with
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While we talked, I come to think
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The Symptoms!
MENTAL CASES NUMBER 16.000
IN TEXAS HOSPITALS
Austin, Nov. 23—Patients in Texas
mental hospitals aie desperately in
need of “breathing room”.
Now numbering Hi,000 and increas-
ing every day, the State’s mental
wards are jammed into 50-year-ohl
buildings for less than half the pres-
ent hospital population.
Newspapermen, representing some
of the State’s largest and smallest
papers, recently got a first-hand
look at this pathetic situation when
they made a 1,000 mile swing
through Texas. Their stopping
points were the packed mental insti-
tutions.
The tour was inspired by Governor
Allan Shivers and sponsored by the
Austin professional chapter of Sigma
Delta Chi, a journalism fraternity
composed mostly of working news-
papermen.
Early this fall, the Governor in-
spected the institutions himself, find-
ing them overcrowded and under-
staffed. Later, he described his
findings to the journalism fraterinty.
The journalists started planning a
press tour before the meeting ended
to see for themselves the conditions. !
Guided by Dr. James Scarborough,
medical director for State Hospitals,
the newsmen saw what the Governor
told them they would see.
In San Antonio’s mental hospital
26 beds were jig-sawed into a ward-
room with space for 15. Some of '
Abilene’s epileptic cases were eating
in bathrooms for lack of dining I
space. ;
At Terrell, 77 Negro women were
confined in a rotting “infirmary”, ’
condemned and evacuated decades be- I
fore, but pressed into service again i
when .‘breathing room” ran out.
Rusk State Hospital’s superinten-1
dent told the visitors that 30 pa-
tients were on a “waiting list” to
enter his hospital. Half were still
living at home, half in jail cells.
In the Austin hospital tubercular |
patients could not be isolated from
tals, it is even more imperative
. mental hospitals.
| The officials emphasized that men- j
tal patients often become “disturbed”
I during the night and can inflame a
j whole ward when beds are only inches |
apart-
The hospital authorities als0 ex-
plained that hundreds of new patients
with only slight mental illness have
become hopeless cases after living
with the acutely ill for a few months.
More space, the hospitalmen ad-
ded, is the 0nly means of separating
patients according to the stage of
their insanity.
Abilene’s hospital for epileptics of-
fers a special, deadly problem.
All the Abilene institution’s build- |
ings have three or four stories- Steep j
flights of razor-sharp slate steps |
make every building a deathtrap for
epileptic patients who are subject to ,
“seizures” at any time. Falls down
the stairs have taken some lives and j
resulted in many serious injuries.
An unrehearsed demonstration of
this hazard was seien by the newsmen.
They watched while a nurse ran to
help a little girl who, unnoticed, had
pulled herself almost to the top of a
steep flight of stairs.
Officials of the hospitals told the
newspapermen they plan t0 ask the
special January session of the Legis-
lature for funds to give their patients i
“breathing room.”
Similar appropriations were pro- j
posed during last spring’s regular !
session, but the lawmakers ran out of
money before they could act to ease ■
the strain 0n the state’s mental hos- j
pitals. |
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Edward Hargrove
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
COTULLA, TEXAS
William B. Barbour
Attorney-At-Law
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COTULLA. TEXAS
La Salle County
LIBRARY
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APPEAL FOR NURSES
Veterans Administration today is-
sued an urgent appeal for nurses for
the VA Hospital in Houston.
Patient load of the Houston VA hos-
pital will be much greater in the im-
mediate future under a recent order
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other patients for lack of dormitory ; increasing the number of beds avail- '
space. j able in the institution to 937. The j
In more than one hospital patients! increase will almost double the num- j ,=v —v
slept on open porches, winter as ber of beds presently available ' ‘
well as summer. Buildings with fire j veterans of the area,
escapes were in minority at several
hospitals.
Superintendents of the institutions
minted out that, while adequate bed
space is essential in ordinary hospi-
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VA said.
Applicants were asked to contact
the Chief Nurse, Veterans Adminis-
tration Hospital, Houston, Texas.
Stockmens Insurance Agency
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COTULLA. TEXAS
Office in Stockmens National
PHONE NO. 1
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The Cotulla Record (Cotulla, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 36, Ed. 1 Friday, November 25, 1949, newspaper, November 25, 1949; Cotulla, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1159343/m1/4/: accessed July 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Alexander Memorial Library.