All this seems so simple and is so obviously the right course that we wonder why it had not long ago been tried.
BARNYARD AND POULTRY HOUSES AT COLONY
Two ideas are prominent in this system, the first to find agreeable, healthful employment for the patients and to give them a home.
CHICKEN RUNS
Show Appreciation.
This working class, while too defective to take up the burden of life, are yet appreciative of their surroundings and of most things that make life happy to the people in the outside world. They require the minimum amount of care and discipline and with this given they conduct themselves as well, indeed, better, than the same number of sane men. Some under this treatment recover that otherwise would not, but the majority must remain under hospital care, this being their refuge and their home. How much need therefore that every effort should be put forth to make it pleasant to these afflicted men.
In general hospitals, in institutions for children, and in reformatories we have a different class to deal with. A large number under one roof is not so objectionable, but these cases of chronic insanity are not children in whom the desire for a home is small, nor are they malefactors in prison for punishment.