Identifier: howuncaredforepi00comm (find matches)
Title: How the uncared-for epileptic fares in Illinois; colony care the remedy; a plea for immediate legislative action; how you can help
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: The Committee of Fifty
Subjects: Epilepsy -- Illinois Epileptics -- Illinois
Publisher: (Chicago)
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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d syphilis, and the story she told us was too horrible to relate. The only thing we could do was to send her to our County Farm, where we had a trained nurse, and she was given as good care as was possible; a course of treatment was directed by the county physician. After remaining there nine months, very much improved, she returned home. She remained in her home for six months or more, staying- indoors quite closely, until a month before she was sent to Elgin Insane Hospital, which was June 25, 1912. During that last month it was impossible for her people to keep her from the streets; they were unable to control her. as she became dangerous. She lost all sense of morality, was in a most deplorable condition morally, physically and mentally. The mother told me yesterday that at the time of their last visit to Elgin two weeks ago, the physician said the spasms were very frequent. She would fall many times during 24 hours. Among her other experiences she gave birth to two illegitimate children.
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(.oiirUsy uf Stute Cli^rUies Lviuinissinn. Here is a six-year-old epileptic Rirl as she was treated of necessity at home. She is tied like an animal. The State Board of Charities secured her admission to the Lincoln School for Feeble Minded Children, as the state has no place for the epileptic. She is receiving: both book and manual education and her seizures apparently have ceased under proper diet and other treatment. 17 AN UNSOLVED FAMILY PROBLEM. Forty-first Senatorial District. Eleven years ago a German farnier. at the bedside of his thirteen-months-old baby boy, was trying to comprehend the words of the doctor who was telling him that if the baby lived he would be different from Hilda and Leo and the healthy brood of brothers and sisters, and realized that the doctor was asking if he had better save the babys life. Heinrich has been an expense froin the first year of his life. Over one thousand dollars from the meager family purse ha^■e gone to find a cure. The father does teaming a

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