Summary of Recommendations. 8. That the payment by private patients in State hospitals of more than $10 per week be prohibited by statute. 9. That the commission be empowered to make the salaries and allowances of the officers and employés of the State hospitals uniform for like grades of service. 10. That provision be made for the care of insane convicts apart from patients held on criminal orders, by erecting on the grounds of one of the State prisons, or elsewhere, a suitable hospital building for the former class. 11. That the care of the dependent insane of the counties of New York and Kings be transferred to the State, by the conversion of the present asylums for the insane of these counties into State hospitals. 12. That additional safeguards be provided to prevent the commitment to State hospitals of persons who are simply mentally enfeebled as a result of old age. 13. That more stringent provisions of law be enacted to prevent mentally unbalanced persons from involuntarily becoming inmates of, or from being detained against their will in, so-called sanitariums which are not licensed, and over which the State exercises no supervision. CHAPTER 26. General Statistical Review. The number of committed and registered insane in the State on October 1, 1894, was as follows: State hospital system (including the Matteawan State Hos- Exempted county system (New York and Kings counties)... 9,571 8,698 819 Total.... 19,088 The net increase over the preceding year may be classified as follows: The details of the foregoing statement will be found in the following table: General Statistical Review. The number of hospitals and asylums, public and private, for the insane, October 1, 1894, was as follows: State hospital system (inclusive of the Mattea wan State Hospital for Insane Criminals) . . Exempted county system (New York, 4; Kings, ↑).. Licensed private asylum system Total 9 6 18 33 Total cost of hospitals and asylums for the insane to October Receipts of State hospitals and asylums for the insane for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1894: State hospital system... Exempted county system... Licensed private asylum system Total .... $2,454,194 56 1,512,506 33 316,216 00 $4,282,916 89 * Includes new buildings of the Bloomingdale Asylum at White Plains. |