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HOSPITALS FOR THE INSANE LINCOLN
Salary
Superintendent--D. G. Griffiths, M. D.
$2,500
Assistant Superintendent--R. H. Spradling, M. D. .
1,680
Physician--W. H. Hunnicut, M. D. .
1,500
Steward--T. R. Helms
1,609
Matron--Margaret Hays
840
Bookkeeper--Laurie M. L. Vance
960
NORFOLK
Salary
Superintendent--G. E. Charlton, M. D.
$2,500
First Assistant Physician--Edw. L. Emich, M. D.
1,680
Staff Physician--C. W. Grady, M. D.
1,680
Staff Physician--W. Wilson, M. D.
1,500
Bookkeeper--Laura Hill
960
Steward--A. J. Gutzmer
1,600
Matron--Bertha Ludwig
840
INGLESIDE (Hastings)
Salary
Superintendent--W. S. Fast, M. D
$2,500
Assistant Superintendent--M. White, M. D.
1,680
Staff Physician--Clara M. Hayden, M. D.
1,500
Staff Physician-- H. J. Pittock, M. D.
1,500
Staff Physician--W. W. Hedlund, M. D.
1,500
Steward--M. O'Meara
1,600
Matron--Libbie Thomsen
840
Bookkeeper--Maud M. Pittock
960
CARE OF NEBRASKA INSANE AT LINCOLN, NORFOLK AND HASTINGS The Nebraska territorial assembly by legislative act approved February 13, 1865, authorized the governor "to make arrangements wiith (sic) tthe (sic) proper authorities of the state of Iowa for the admission of the territory's insane into the Iowa hospital for the insane." The territory paid the expense if the insane persons or their natural guardians were unable to do so. Arrangements were made with Iowa, and nine of Nebraska's insane admitted to the asylum located at Mount Pleasant, in 1865. Nebraska continued to send her insane there until July, 1870. At this time the asylum at Mount Pleasant was unable to farther care for Nebraska's insane. Nebraska's governor was forced to move six of the incurable patients and confine them in the Pawnee county jail until the asylum at Lincoln was completed. This institution has the legal name of the Nebraska hospital for the insane. The, legislature of 1869 appropriated $50,000 from the amount received from the sale of lots in the townsite of Lincoln for the erection of an insane asylum. On November 8, 1870, the, building wits accepted and the first patient admitted November 26, 1870. By December 1, it was completely furnished and ready for patients. The patients from the Iowa hospital and the different jails throughout the, state, numbering thirty in all, were removed to this asylum. On the morning of April 17, 1871, this building was burned, the insurance carried amounting to $95,000, On June 6, 1871, an act was approved appropriating $70,000 for the erection of a new building and appointing a commission to make settlement with the insurance companies for the amount due, the amount accepted to be not less than $72,000. This second building opened for admission of patients November 21, 1872.
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Until 1891 the expenses of caring for the insane in the various institutions of the state were borne by the relatives of the patients or by the counties. By legislative act of 1891 the state assumed the entire expense of caring for the insane in state institutions.The hospital for the insane at Norfolk was established by an act approved March 4, 1885. $75,000 being appropriated for the erection of a building. This institution was established there upon the condition that the city of Norfolk should donate 320 acres of land, which it did. On the morning of September 23, 1901, the entire main ward building was destroyed by fire, 160 patients were immediately transferred to Lincoln and Hastings and on December 6, 1901, the remainder of the patients were likewise transferred. The legislature of 1903 appropriated $100,000 to restore the damaged building.
The state hospital for the insane at Ingleside, near Hastings, was established by an act approved March 30, 1887, and $75,000 appropriated for buildings. The establishment and appropriation were conditioned upon the donation by the city of Hastings of not less than 160 acres of good land. This condition the city met. The purpose of this institution originally was to take the more chronic and incurable insane, thus relieving the institutions at Lincoln and Norfolk of this class. The legislature, by act approved April 11, 1903, appropriated $15,000 for the purchase of 320 acres of land.
The legislature of 1907 amended the law so as to strike the word "incurable" from the name of the Hastings Institution, and the board of public lands and buildings divided the state into three hospital districts.
Dipsomaniacs are cared for at the Lincoln hospital.
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APPROPRIATIONS AND EXPENDITURES, LINCOLN HOSPITAL FOR INSANE, 1865-1921.
Appropriations Years Buildings, Etc. Salaries and Maintenance Deficiency Total Maintenance Appropriations Number of Officers and Employes Average Number of Inmates Per Capita Expenditure for Biennium 1865-66
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$815.69
560.57
$1,385.26
...... 9 $154.00
1866-67
......
2,000.00
3,511.15
5,511.15
...... 6 918.00
1867-68
......
6,500.00
9,321.72
15,812.72
...... 21 753.00
1869-70
50,000.00
16,000.00
19,317.97
35,317.57
...... 40 883.00
1871-72
74,000.00
61,600.00
1,318.72
62,918.72
...... 75 839.00
1873-74
11,600.00
69,500.00
272.00
69,772.00
...... 70 996.00
1875-76
37,600.00
60,000.00
......
60,000.00
...... 68 882.00
1877-70
1,000.00
55,287.50
1,322.10
56,609.60
...... 103 550.00
1879-81
39,000.00
60,800.00
2,500.00
63,300.00
...... 156 405.00
1881-83
41,500.00
91,800.00
3,000.00
94,800.00
...... 232 408.00
1883-85
20,000.00
124,400.00
3,000.00
127,400.00
...... 317 402.00
1885-87
14,500.00
150,000.00
12,000.00
162,000.00
...... 365 443.00
1887-89
6,000.00
163,800.00
19,800.00
183,600.00
...... 380 483.00
1889-91
34,000.00
154,200.00
12,000.00
166,200.00
...... 344 483.00
1891-93
5,000.00
161,000.00
......
161,000.00
...... 341 472.00
1893-95
6,300.00
126,400.00
4,289.46
130,689.46
...... 327 400.00
1895-97
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113,900.00
73.50
113,973.50
...... 355 321.00
1897-99
4,500.00
116,400.00
3,616.75
120,016.75
...... 361 332.00
1899-01
45,000.00
117,700.00
1,042.01
118,742.01
66 363 327.00
1901-03
2,700.00
155,175.00
4,477.89
159,652.89
...... 523 305.00
1903-05
11,000.00
174,600.00
26,255.00
200,855.00
...... 582 345.00
1905-07
6,000.00
182,800.00
19,557.00
202,357.00
93 591 342.00
1907-09
2,000.00
196,200.00
331.46
106,531.46
94 551 357.00
1909-11
7,000.00
193,700.00
......
193,700.00
83 580 334.00
1911-13 .
103,514.25
219,150.00
1,919.00
221,069.00
92 610 362.00
1913-15
106,000.00
274,700.00
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274,700.00
108 718 336.00
1915-17
30,000.00
......
......
285,200.00
106 733 302.641
1917-19
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......
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308,000.00
101 767 470.67
1919-21
14,000.00
......
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387,000.002
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Totals
$672,214.25
$3,048,428.19
$149,486.30
$4,182,114.49
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(sic)
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1Based upon total expenditures as reported by Board of commissioners.
2The legislature of 1919 made, a lump appropriation for all state institutions. This is the tentative apportionment made by the board of control.
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APPROPRIATIONS AND EXPENDITURES, NORFOLK HOSPITAL, 1885-1021. 1$10,000 of this amount transferred to Lincoln hospital for the insane to help care for inmates transferred to this hospital from Norfolk because of destruction of buildings by fire. In ascertaining the per capita cost the sum of $90,873.08 is used.
Appropriations
Years Buildings, Etc. Salaries and Maintenance Deficiency Total Maintenance Appropriations Number of Officers and Employes Average Number of Inmates Per Capita Expenditure for Biennium 1885-87
$75,000.00
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1887-89
94,700.00
$81,300.00
$22,231.00
$103,531.00
...... 110 $94.00
1889-91
6,500.00
109,850.00
......
109,950.00
...... 164 669.00
1891-93
16,716.02
105,800.00
3,267.84
100,067.84
...... 205 532.00
1893-95
1,000.00
82,600.00
2,780.88
85,380.88
...... 198 431.00
1895-97.
1,000.00
84,450.00
......
84,450.00
...... 193 438.00
1897-99
25,000.00
88,870.00
......
88,870.00
...... 913 417.00
1899-01
1,550.00
102,300.00
2,998.08
105,298.08
...... 269 391.00
1901-03
7,500.00
97,875.00
211.50
98,086.501
...... 234 375.00
1903-05
100,000.00
54,850.00
......
54,850.002
...... Reb'ld'g after fire. 1905-07
45,750.00
103,350.00
12,120.59
115,470.59
44 206 561.00
1907-09
94,500.00
134,500.00
......
134,500.00
53 274 490.00
1909-11
32,300.00
141,000.00
......
141,000.00
56 297 474.00
1911-13
27,707.57
157,400.00
......
157,400.00
60 376 419.00
1913-15
62,000.00
180,400.00
......
180,400.00
67 431 393.84
1915-17
65,850.00
......
......
183,700.00
78 503 379.45
1917-19
12,000.00
......
10,561.59
251,561.59
75 609 459.45
1919-21
127,250.00
......
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320,000.003
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Totals
$706,323.59
$1,524,545.00
$54,171.48
$2,223,416.48
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(sic)
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(sic)
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2$18,000 of this amount transferred to Lincoln hospital for the insane.
3The legislature of 1919 made a lump appropriation for all state institutions. This Is the tentative apportionment made by the board of control.
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