Will Go To Kalamazoo

WILL GO TO KALAMAZOO.

THE FIVE LADY INSANE PATIENTS IN WASHTENAW.

For Whom No Place Could be Found in the Pontiac Asylum-The Project for a County Asylum Talked Of.

Judge Newkirk, who has been diligently endeavoring to find a place for the insane patients of this county, who are awaiting a place in the asylums, has just received word that an arrangement had been made by which the five lady insane patients in this county who are yet awaiting rooms in the asylums, would be taken at the Kalamazoo asylum. No provision has as yet been made for the male patients awaiting places. The communication of Judge Newkirk in the Argus advocating the building of an addition to the county house so that insane patients could be cared for there, their treatment being put in charge of the university doctors has met with widespread comment and favorable comment too. It would fix it so that the unfortunate insane would not be compelled to consort with thieves and criminals at the county jail and so that respectable families would not have the disgrace of having an unfortunate member of their family in jail. As far as the university physicians are concerned, it would increase the efficiency of their instruction on the subject of insanity and every physician is called upon to deal with this subject in some form. The county now has to pay $3 a week for patients committed to the asylums. The asylums are of course opposed to the county system of caring for the insane, notwithstanding their crowded condition, evidently fearing that the crowded condition which they now seem to want would not continue. Reference to Judge Newkirk's letter was made in various papers about the state and this may have had something to do with the arrangement to take the five lady patients at Kalamazoo.