Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1910 — ABLE BODIED PATIENTS. [ARTICLE]

ABLE BODIED PATIENTS.

Dr. Terflinger Wishes Farm at Northern Hospital for Insane. Logansport, Ind., Nov. 29. —- The legislative visiting committee vesterday inspected the Northern Indiana Hospital for the Insane Di. Fred \\ . Terflinger, superintenerit desires an appropriation of $150,000 to buy land to establish an agricultural colony for able-bodied patients. Dr. Terflinger believes this is the only wav the state can adequately care for its increasing number of charges. The hospital is now crowded beyond its capacity and about twenty-five patients are being held in county jails awaiting admission. Dr. Terflinger favors the separation of chronic and acute cases and would establish an agricultural colony along + he lints 5 of one in Wisconsin; Dr. I erdinger. Father .Gavisk and Amos Butler, of Indianapolis and W. H. Eichorn. of Bhiffton. inspected the Wisconsin colony last unimer and were impressed with it. ' ' L ■ k l .