Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 202, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1910 — Insane Patients Transferred From Indianapolis to Madison. [ARTICLE]

Insane Patients Transferred From Indianapolis to Madison.

The first consignment of 100 patients for the new southeastern hospital for the insane at Madison was sent from the central insane hospital of Indianapolis to Madison Tuesday. A special train of three coaches took the patients, their guards and baggage. Fifty men and fifty women were transported, a coach being given to each sex. Two patients who were slated to go grew violent at the attempt to remove them and the authorities were forced to allow them to remain in the city. Several showed showed signs of fright at the .finwonted ride on the train, but no serious trouble was experienced. In all 500 patients will go from Indianapolis to the new hospital.