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Colony Treatment
OF THE
Insane and Other Defectives
--BY--
DR. P. L. MURPHY MORGANTON, N. C.
Read Before the Meeting of the N. C. Medical Association June, 1906, Charlotte, N. C.
Colony Treatment of the Insane and Other Defectives
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.
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.
Such a colony was established in connection with the Morganton Hospital three years ago, or rather it was ready for occupancy about that time. It took several years of talk to get the idea adopted, and as many more to get the colony built. The plan of conducting it by the hospital authorities was largely experimental, and was made to suit the people of Western North Carolina, but it is, after all, a modification of the original German conception.
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