Rochester State Hospital - Annual Report.

TABLE NO. 20.

Showing the nativity of patients admitted during the current year and since October 1, 1888.

Of the total number admitted since 1st of October, 1888, the parents

of 59 per cent. were both of foreign birth.

In 4 per cent. the parentage on the paternal side was foreign, while that on the maternal side was native.

In 2.3 per cent. the parentage on the maternal side was foreign, while that on the paternal side was native.

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Showing the residence by counties and classification of patients admitted during the year ending September 30, 1894.

Showing the residence by counties and classification of patients remaining under treatment September 30, 1894.

CHAPTER 15.

Special Reports of State Hospitals.

It will be observed that in calling for special reports from the State hospitals for the past year, the questions submitted to the superintendents cover a much wider range of subjects, as compared with those of previous years, the object being to elicit detailed information showing, as fully as is possible in a report of this character, the actual condition and operations of the State hospitals as they exist to day, together with their methods of management and the underlying principles governing the same; also to obtain, through a series of comprehensive and suggestive interrogations, the views of superintendents upon certain important questions relative to the care and treatment of the insane and the management of institutions therefor, many of which have recently been widely discussed in both medical and lay circles. It is believed that the information and opinions contained in these reports, which are here inserted, coming as they do from men who, by reason of large experience in such matters, are presumably competent to speak thereon, will be accepted as interesting and valuable contributions to present knowledge of the subjects to which they relate. It is also hoped that in certain particulars they will serve to counteract the influence of some recent indiscriminate and, in many respects, unwarranted criticisms upon institutions for the insane, at least so far as they relate to the New York State hospitals.

For the sake of convenience the questions above referred to are, in the first instance, inserted consecutively, and then the inquiry, with the answers of the several hospitals to each question grouped, in order to facilitate comparisons.

State Hospitals – Questions for Special Reports.

STATE OF NEW YORK-STATE COMMISSION IN LUNACY. Carlos F. MacDonald, President; Goodwin Brown, Henry A. Reeves, Commissioners.

STATE HOSPITALS.

SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT OCTOBER 1, 1893, TO SEPTEMBER 30, 1894. Questions for Special Reports.

1. State generally the operations of the hospital for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1894; giving the number and kind of buildings erected or completed during the year, or now in course of erection; the extraordinary repairs to buildings, and other important improvements and betterments begun or completed during the year; also any new features in methods of management, together with a review of the general results of the year, including the number of patients present at the beginning of the year, number admitted, discharged, recovered, improved and unimproved, number died, total discharged, whole number treated, and average daily population during the year.

2. Give, separately, the purpose and amount of special appropriations granted to the hospital by the Legislature of 1894, and the total sum of such appropriations, together with the amount expended under each.

3. Give an itemized schedule of appropriations to be asked for in 1895, and state briefly the necessity for each item in the schedule.

4. Give the yearly and weekly per capita cost "for the care, medical treatment, maintenance and transportation of the insane poor to State hospitals, the payment of officers' salaries, the payment of employes' wages, and ordinary and incidental repairs" (section 1, chapter 214, Laws of 1893), and all other expenses, exclusive of all expenditures made under special appropriations.

5 Give the percentage of recoveries on the number of patients admitted, on the average daily population, on the whole number treated, and on the number discharged during the fiscal year.

6. Give the percentage of deaths on the number of patients admitted, on the average daily population, on the whole number treated, and on the number discharged during the fiscal year.

7. Give whole number of inebriates (including alcoholic, opium and other narcotic habitues) discharged during the year, and state whether these are classed as "recovered" or "not insane" in your annual report.