Special Reports of State Hospitals. when the last report was written has been completed and one end converted into stalls for farm horses. The carriage-house and stable, the house for storage of vegetables and the extension of the boiler-house have all been completed and occupied The carriage-house still requires some ceiling and sheathing in the lower story and the introduction of steam heat in the coachman's room. Fourteen thousand eight hundred and twenty-one feet of agricultural drain tile have been laid during the year and the low portions of the farm greatly improved. From funds appropriated by chapter 358, Laws of 1894, we have built and put in operation a building to accommodate 100 hogs, consisting of a long, low, central structure, with flauking pens of open fence. The farm boundary line of fence has been extended 157 rods. A new grate, a fire arch and box lining have been placed under one of the boilers, and other repairs made. The flooring in the laundry has been relaid and the tile purchased for the dynamo-room. The machinery and shafting for the carpenter and machinist shops have been ordered and the room is being prepared for their reception. The water-closets in the airing courts have been built and are nearly finished. They are made of brick, with slate sheathing around a portion of the interior walls. Sash has been purchased for the cold air boxes and iron guards placed on several exterior windows, and, in addition, all the transoms of the airing court have been covered with a light wire guard to prevent patients from scaling the walls. The average daily population during the year was 431.37. Special Reports of State Hospitals. 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. UTICA STATE HOSPITAL. The hospital had no special appropriations during the year 1894. WILLARD STATE HOSPITAL. The following is a list of the special appropriations granted the hospital by the Legislature in 1894, with the total sum of same, and the amount expended under each: For cleaning and repairing reservoirs, $4,000; for repairs to foundation walls of buildings 2 and 4, $3,400; for repairs to inside walls, plastering, painting, etc., $3,000; for steam pipe covering, $2,000, of which $1,425 has been expended; for outside shoe rooms, $1,000; for hot water heater and steam coils in laundry, $1,300; for steel ceilings, $1,000; for repairing daniaged roofs and walls of storm doors at branch, $1,000; for farm fences, $900; for tile floors for building No. 3, $700, of which $396 has been expended; for water-closets and lavatory in administration building, $500; for repairs to barns, $500; for porticos, $400; for hospital ward, $100; for heating, lighting and plumbing the chapel and old assembly hall, $1,000; for electric-light fixtures for Hadley Hall for the stage and for two electric-light chandeliers, $500; for furniture, $1,500; for employment of clergymen, $1,000. Total, $23,800. HUDSON RIVER STATE HOSPITAL. The amounts given under the heading "expended " refer to the payments actually made prior to October 1, 1894. Contracts, upon which only small amounts had been paid at that time, have been entered into for the larger appropriations and the balances on the smaller appropriations have nearly all been expended since October 1. The amounts given, therefore, as expended, do not show the condition of the special funds at this time. * For expenses incurred in the matter of the illegal arrest of Maria Anspach, a private citisupposed to be an eloped patient. zen, Special Reports of State Hospitals. BUFFALO STATE HOSPITAL. The Legislature of 1894 granted an appropriation of $350,150, or so much thereof as may be necessary for the following: For the completion of the westerly wing of said State hospital in accordance with the original plans, approved by State officers, desig nated in the original act. For the construction of additional water-closets and connections, for relaying closet floors, for changing steam pipes in the tunnel and for new floor in engine-room. Of this amount there has been expended (October 1, 1894) For buildings H, I and J ..... ...... For the construction of water closets and relaying closet floors.... For changing steam pipes in tunnel... For piping boiler and steam condenser Total ... $56,562 82 240 50 350 00 179 45 86 10 $57,418 87 Although plans have been prepared for the expenditure of these appropriations, practically no bills were paid by the treasurer prior to October 1, 1894. |