Colony Treatment of the Insane and Other Defectives

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—BY—
DR. P. L. MURPHY MORGANTON, N. C.
Read Before the Meeting of the N. C. Medical Association June, 1906, Charlotte, N. C.
(REPRINT FROM CAROLINA MEDICAL JOURNAL.)

The subject of this paper might be called Employment as a means of treating and caring for the insane and other defectives the colony being the means of finding agreeable and profitable work for the inmates.
To many of you a description of what is meant by the colony treatment is needed to fully understand the subject.
As the expression is used in this paper, and as it is generally understood, it means the erection of buildings some distance from the central hospital plant and placing farm working patients there, to be under the control and management of the hospital officers.
FIRST BUILDING AT THE COLONY
Without discussing the origin of the idea, and with no reference to Gheel, it is sufficient to say it was begun in Germany in the sixties, and that it has slowly found its way into other countries.
THE COLONY BUILDINGS