All letters regarding publication should be addressed to the TABLE OF CONTENTS Old Age and Its Psychoses. By Dr. Charles W. Pilgrim .......... PAGE APPOINTMENT OF DR. CHARLES W. PILGRIM Dr. Charles W. Pilgrim, Superintendent of the Hudson River State Hospital, at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., was appointed Chairman of the State Hospital Commission by Governor Whitman, on September 12, 1916. The appointment was highly gratifying to all connected with the State hospital system, and to the friends of the insane throughout the State. Dr. Pilgrim is a native of New York State, having been born in Monroe, Orange County. His early education was obtained from private tutors and by attendance at the Jersey City High School. He was graduated from the course in medicine of New York University, in 1881, and later did two years post graduate work in the University of Vienna. His experience in hospital work began in 1881, as house physician in Bellevue Hospital, New York City. The next year he became assistant physician in the Asylum for Insane Criminals, at Auburn, N. Y. Soon afterwards he accepted a position as assistant physician in the Utica State Hospital. Leaving that institution in 1884, he went to Germany, and became volunteer physician in the Frauenklinik, in Munich. From there he went to the University of Vienna. In 1890, Dr. Pilgrim was appointed superintendent of the Willard State Hospital; in 1893, he resigned this position to accept the superintendency of the Hudson River State Hospital. In 1906, Governor Higgins appointed Dr. Pilgrim, President of the State Commission in Lunacy. After one year's service in this position, he resigned to resume his former work at Hudson River State Hospital. Dr. Pilgrim's remarkable success in hospital management and his important contributions to medical periodicals has given him an international reputation. In 1911, he was elected President of the American Medico-Psychological Association. The same year he served as President of the He is a Fellow of the Dutchess County Medical Society. New York Academy of Medicine. His published articles include, 'A Study of Suicide;" Genius and Suicide;" "Medical Work in the State Hospitals;" "A Visit to Gheel;" Does the Loco Weed Produce Insanity?" "Communicated Insanity;" "Schools for the Insane;" "Suicide and Insanity;" "Care and Treatment of Insane in the State of New York;" 'Proper Size of Hospitals for the Insane; " "The Study of a Year's Statistics," etc. |