Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2017 All Rights Reserved USGenNet Data Repository Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ =========================================================================== Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== The Calumet News September 25, 1912 U. P. HOSPITAL OVERCROWDED No New Cottage Has Been Erected For Three Years. The upper peninsula asylum for the insane at Newberry is overcrowded with patients because the 1911 legislature refused to appropriate enough money for the erection of another cottage. There are now 840 patients in the institution. Extra beds have been placed in several of the sleeping rooms; one sitting room has been con- verted into a bedroom; the management has been obliged to place cots in hallways, and for some time probate judges have been committing upper peninsula insane persons to the state asylum at Traverse City, which is not filled. No new cottage has been erected for three years, although members of the board of control claim that at least one new cottage should be built every two years. If the 1913 legislature appropriates enough money for a new cottage, the asylum board will not be able to have the building erected before next fall, if by that time. "When new buildings at state institutions are needed, it is poor economy and poor policy for state officials to wait two years before appropriating the required money." said PERRY LEIGHTON of Newberry, a member of the local asylum board of control, today. The 1911 legis- lature should have granted the appropriation for a new cottage regardless of the state being short of money. Our state taxes are not so very high and the people would not have objected to the legislature appropriating enough money for a new building at the Newberry asylum to pro- vide enough rooms for the patients to sleep." ==========================================================================