Annual Report of the Trustees of the Danvers State Hospital
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: Public Document No. 20 THIRTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL REPORT THE TRUSTEES Danvers State Hospital, DANVERS, MASS. (POST-OFFICE, HATHORNE), Yeak ending November 30, 1915. BOSTON WEIGHT & POTTER PRINTING CO., STATE PRINTERS, 32 DERNE STREET. 1916. Approved by The State Board of Publication. CONTENTS. Organization of Hospital, . 5 Report op Trustees, 15 Report of Superintendent, 18 Report of Clinical Groups, 66 64 Report of Treasurer, . Statistics, 71 OFFICERS OF THE DANVERS STATE HOSPITAL. Nov. 30, 1915. TRUSTEES. Mr. S. Herbert Wilkins, Chairman, . Salem. Mr. Seward W. Jones, Newton Highlands. Mr. Ernest B. Dane, Boston. Miss Annie M. Kilham, Beverly. Mr. Samuel Cole, Corresponding Secretary, Beverly. Mr. Dan A. Donahue, Salem. Miss Mary Ward Nichols, Recording Secretary. Danvers. RESIDENT OFFICERS. George M. Kline, M.D., . Physician and Superintendent. John B. Macdonald, M.D., Physician and Assistant Superin- tendent. Nelson G. Trueman, M.D., Assistant Physician. William J. Thompson, M.D., Assistant Physician. Alice M. Patterson, M.D., Assistant Physician. David T. Brewster, M.D., Assistant Physician. Alfred P. Chronquest, M.D., Assistant Physician. NONRESIDENT OFFICERS. Lawson G. Lowret, M.D., Pathologist. Mr. Horace M. Brown, Treasurer and Clerk. Mr. Scott Whitcher, Steward. HEADS OF DEPARTMENTS. Mr. Adam D. Smith, . Supervisor Male Department. Miss Eunice A. Fisk, Superintendent of Nurses and Prin- cipal of Training School. Mrs. Harriet A. Read, Supervisor Female Department. Mr. Carl A. Lindgren, Engineer. Mr. Junius C. Wing, Farmer. Mr. George W. Gardner, Carpenter. CONSULTING BOARD OF PHYSICIANS. Dr. Francis W. Anthony, 112 Main Street, Haverhill. Dr. William Howe Merrill, "The Bay State," Lawrence. Dr. Edward M. Greene, 20 Mt. Vernon Street, Boston. Dr. Thomas Kittredge, 13 Chestnat Street, Salem. Dr. Edward B. Lane, Adams Nervine Asylum, Jamaica Plain. Dr. Arthur C. Nason, 166 High Street, Newburyport. Dr. Walter G. Phippen, 88 Washington Square, Salem. Dr. Warren W. Pillsbury, 51 Washington Street, Newburyport. Dr. Joseph G. Pinkham, . 64 Nahant Street, Lynn. Dr. George B. Shattuck, 183 Beacon Street, Boston. Dr. Frederick W. Taylor, 1735 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge. Dr. George B. Shattuck, Chairman. Dr. Edward B. Lane, Secretary. DENTIST. Dr. J. Herman Haines, . 291 Essex Street, East Lynn. SOCIAL SERVICE WORKER. Miss Hannah Curtis. INDUSTRY TEACHER. Mrs. Anna L. Tompkins. MEMBERS OF GOVERNING BOARD DANVERS STATE HOSPITAL From its Organization in 1878. BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS APPOINTED TO ESTABLISH THE DANVERS STATE HOSPITAL. Samuel C. Cobb. C. C. Esty. Edwin Walden. James F. Ellis, Superintending Architect. Nathaniel J. Bradlee, Consulting Architect. Charles A. Hammond, Engineer. MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES. James Sturgis, OFFICERS DANVERS STATE HOSPITAL From its Organization in 1878. MEDICAL SUPERINTENDENTS. Calvin S. Mat, M.D., 1878-1880 William B. Goldsmith, M.D., 1881-1886 William A. Gorton, M.D., 1886-1888 Charles W. Page, M.D., 1888-1898 Arthur H. Harrington, M.D., 1898-1903 Charles W. Page, M.D., . 1903-1910 Harry W. Mitchell, M.D., 1910-1912 George M. Kline, M.D., . 1912- ASSISTANT MEDICAL SUPERINTENDENTS. Walter Channing, M.D., 187S-1879 Henry R. Stedman, M.D., 1879-1884 William A. Gorton, M.D., 1884-1886 Edward P. Elliott, M.D., 1886-1897 George P. Sprague, M.D., 1897-1899 Harry W. Mitchell, M.D., 1899-1907 Henry A. Cotton, M.D., 1907-1907 Henry M. Swift, M.D., 1908-1912 Ray D. Wthitney, M.D., 1912-1912 John B. Macdonald, M.D., 1912- ASSISTANT PHYSICIANS. Winifred B. Bancroft, M.D., 1878-1879 Edward M. Harding, M.D., 1879-1881 Julia K. Cary, M.D., 1879-1897 Sanger Brown, M.D., 1881-1882 William A. Gorton, M.D., 1882-1884 F. W. Walsh, M.D., . 1882-1884 M. A. Jewett, M.D., . 1883-1892 Arthur H. Harrington, M.D., 1885-1894 Joseph W. Jackson, M.D., . 1892-1893 Frederick L. Hills, M.D., 1893-1896 George P. Sprague, M.D., 1894-1897 Harry H. Colburyn, M.D., 1896-1899 12 DANVERS STATE HOSPITAL. [Dec. Frank A. Ross, M.D., 1S98-1900 Mart Paulsell, M.D., 1898-1907 Harry W. Mitchell, M.D., 1899-1900 James D. Madison, M.D., . 1899-1902 Harry L. Barnes, M.D., 1900-1903 Phillip C. Bartlett, M.D., 1901-1902 Henry M. Swift, M.D., 1902-1905 Earl E. Bessey, M.D., 1902-1907 Henry A. Cotton, M.D., 1903-1907 Louis Hoag, M.D., 1903-1906 F. Robertson Sims, M.D., . 1904-1906 Charles B. Sullivan, M.D., 1905-1909 Henry M. Swift, M.D., 1906-1907 Frederick P. Gay, M.D.. 1906-1907 P. J. McKenzie, M.D., 1906-1907 Arthur M. Collins, M.D., 1906-1907 Anna H. Peabody, M.D., 1906-1913 John J. Walker, M.D., 1907-1908 Gordon T. Brown, M.D., . 1907-1908 Charles Ricksher, M.D., . 1907-1910 Edwin W. Katzenellenbogen, Ph.D. 1908-1910 Leslie C. Bishop, M.D., 1908-1910 Isaiah M. Halladjian, M.D., 1908-1910 Harlan L. Paine, M.D., 1909-1914 William B. Cornell, M.D., 1910-1912 Nelson G. Trueman, M.D., 1910- George Parcher, M.D., 1910-1911 A. Warren Stearns, M.D., 1910-1911 Wm. T. Bailey, M.D., 1911-1911 Allan D. Finlayson, M.D., 1911-1912 Burton D. Thorpe, M.D., . 1911-1913 F. D. Streeter, M.D., 1912-1913 Rose A. Bebb, M.D., . 1913-1914 Alice A. Steffian, M.D., 1913-1914 Frederick P. Moore, M.D., 1913-1913 John H. Travis, M.D., 1913-1915 David T. Brewster, M.D., 1913- Alice M. Patterson, M.D., 1914- Joseph C. Fulmer, M.D., . 1914-1915 Alfred P. Chronquest, M.D., 1914- Harold I. Gosline, M.D., . 1914-1915 Edward B. Allen, M.D., 1915-1915 William J. Thompson, M.D., 1915- PATHOLOGISTS. James J. Putnam, M.D., 1879-1880 William L. Worcester, M.D., 1895-1901 Albert M. Barrett, M.D., 1902-1905 Elmer E. Southard, M.D., 1906-1909 James J. Ayer, Jr., M.D., Assistant, 1907-1908 Ernest T. F. Richards, M.D., . 1907-1908 Herman M. Adler, M.D., . 1909-1912 Myrtelle M. Canavan, M.D., Assistatit, 1908-1912 Earl D. Bond, M.D., .... 1912-1913 Lawson G. Lowrey, M.D., . 1914- 1915.1 PUBLIC DOCUMENT — No. 20. 13 STEWARDS. Stephen C. Rose, 1879-1882 Nathan W. Starbird, Jr. 1882-1889 John N. Lacey, . 1889-1910 Edward S. Groves, 1910-1913 Scott Whitcher, 1913- TREASURERS. Calvin S. May, M.D., 1878-1880 Stephen C. Rose, 1880-1882 Charles H. Gould, 1882-1893 Horatio G. Herrick, 1893-1902 Warren A. Merrill, 1902-1908 Scott Whitcher, 1908-1913 Horace M. Brown, 1913- ©I]e €ommontoealtl) of JHaasacljusette. TRUSTEES' REPORT. To His Excellency the Governor and the Honorable Council. The trustees of the Danvers State Hospital herewith submit their thirty-eighth annual report for the year ending Nov. 30, 1915, together with the reports of the superintendent and treas- urer, and the statistics required by law. The Board desires to direct attention again to the urgent need of a nurses' home for male attendants and married couples. As has been pointed out in previous reports, these employees are housed on the wards with patients or in uninviting rooms in unfinished attics. If an efficient nursing staff is to be re- tained, comfortable quarters must be provided. We feel that this request for a special appropriation to provide a comfortable home to which these employees may go when off duty, for sleep, rest and recreation, is not an unreasonable one, and that it is a duty the State owes these faithful employees whose duties are arduous and trying. Such a home, plans for which have been approved, calling for a plain, flat-roofed building, of second-class construction, to be heated from the present plant and to be connected with the existing sewage system, will cost approximately $50,000. A special appropriation is again requested for the erection and equipment of a storehouse and service building, to be lo- cated opposite the railroad station. Plans for a building of first-class construction have been approved, which requires an appropriation of approximately $47,000. Our present store- room facilities are wholly inadequate, and make necessary the storage of supplies in numerous rooms in basements and attics. With a new building, supplies could not only be purchased advantageously, but handled in an efficient manner. It is con- 16 DANVERS STATE HOSPITAL. [Dec. fidently believed that a new warehouse would pay for itself within a few years. The Board again requests a special appropriation of $28,500 for an industry building, plans for which have been approved, calling for a building of slow-burning construction. The various industries are now carried on in rooms over the boiler room, which not only is fraught with danger to the many patients engaged in this work, but impossible of occupancy during the hot months of summer. The arts and crafts industries are now carried on in two small rooms above the kitchen and bakery, which are wholly inadequate in size to care for the number of patients that require occupational treatment. Here, again, by reason of the heat, the work must be largely abandoned during the summer months. A special appropriation of $800 is requested, with which a small tract of land of 8 acres, adjacent to the railroad and surrounded on three sides by institution property, may be pur- chased. The boilers in our heating plant are within a few years of their average life, and any consideration of a central heating plant and new coal trestle adjacent to the railroad makes desirable the ownership of this small tract of land by the State. A request is made for several small cottages in which to house certain married assistants and officers. It is believed that such cottages can be constructed for $3,500.