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Much insanity is caused by alcohol and drugs. This touches you more closely, for you are largely responsible for these habits. You may do something by preventing unwise marriages of those whose heredity is not good.
It should be your special province to recognize dangerous symptoms in time and by prompt action prevent suicides and accidents and to send to the hospitals at once these patients who have infinitely more chances to recover when placed under the care of competent alienists.
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2,500 WHITE INSANE UNCARED FOR.
The conclusions we reach are that 2,500 white insane people in North Carolina are uncared for, that a great outlay of money will be required to build for this number and after that the never ending expense of maintaining them begins. If it can be demonstrated that the colony system is the best and the cheapest, it should by all means be adopted.
There is an end to the willingness and even ability of the taxpayers to provide for the defectives in expensive hospitals and asylums, and it is clearly the duty of those who have these matters in hand to use proper economy. What is done by the Legislature will depend on the demand of the people and the wisdom of the Legislators. It will require great deliberation and the wisest action to solve this question.
In North Carolina no more hospitals ought to be built at present, those now in existence should be enlarged if possible.