hospital staff is certainly to be commended for uniting so much that is humane and social with the advanced scientific work that is being done on the island. LOUISA PIERPONT SATTERLEE, MARY VIDA CLARK, CENTRAL ISLIP STATE HOSPITAL. BUILDINGS. The administration building has been completed and occupied. By the completion of this building there has been a centralizaton of the administrative department. It is situated midway between the north and south colonies. The superintendent is in immediate communication with every ward and department of the hospital. The amusement hall was completed and occupied February 22d. A dining-room and employees' building is now in process of construction at the south colony. This building will be connected by corridors with the male and female acute services; the first floor to be used as dining-rooms, the second and third floors for sleeping quarters for attendants and employees. An outside lighting system will be established during the coming year. ACREAGE. The hospital property consists of 1,000 acres, 305 of which are under cultivation. CROPS. Crops were raised during the past year to the value of $14.000.88. This includes all farm products, dairy products, etc. RELIGIOUS WORSHIP. Religious services, Protestant and Catholic, are held every Sunday-the former in the afternoon and the latter in the morning. Hebrew services have been held every Saturday morning since July 1, 1905. CENSUS. Census of the hospital on November 2, 1905; male, 2,115; female, 1,500; total, 3,615. OCCUPATION OF PATIENTS. Patients are employed on the farm, gardens, in shoe shop, tin, mat, broom, carpenter, tailor, blacksmith and paint shops, bakery, kitchens, dinng-rooms and power-houses. About 75 per cent. are employed. DEATHS. During the past year (ending September 30, 1905): male, 144; female, 104; total, 248. PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS. We have 104 cases of tuberculosis in the hospital-50 men and 54 women. These are quarantined in separate buildings. MANAGEMENT. Besides the superintendent there are 15 physicians, 16 supervisors (9 male and 7 female), and 500 employees (321 men and 179 women). GENERAL REMARKS. At the present time the hospital is receiving all the male acute cases from New York and Brooklyn. Patients are well supplied with food and clothing. The new colony buildings completed last year have narrow porches but a few feet wide; these are always overcrowded in good weather, and should be from ten to fifteen feet wider and inclosed in glass for the winter months, which would give the inmates an opportunity to get fresh air, even in stormy weather. This should have immediate attention. A few cement walks have been made, the inmates doing the labor. These walks should be around all the buildings; it keeps them much cleaner and gives a good dry walk for the winter months. Only the cost of the cement is required. Wherever you may go through the buildings, or the well-kept grounds and farm, it is apparent that the affairs are so conducted by those having care of them as to merit the approval of the public. JOHN H. VAIL, JOHN H. PRESCOTT. GOWANDA STATE HOSPITAL. During the past year there have been completed upon the grounds of this institution the following new buildings: a superintendent's cottage, a building for the medical staff, a nurses' home and an amusement hall, all substantial brick buildings, except the amusement hall, which is of wood construction. These buildings all seem well adapted for the purposes for which they were built. Other improvements are a new mosaic floor in the kitchen, a new bake oven, and in course of construction at the present time, a cement conduit six feet in diameter running from the power-house to what is known as the annex to carry the steamheating pipes, formerly buried in the ground. This will safeguard the heating of the buildings. There has also been appropriated money for changing and adapting the quarters in the administration building, formerly occupied by the superintendent and members of the staff, to the uses of patients, which will provide increased accommodations. There is also to be built an addition to the dining-room. Money has also been provided for finishing the third floor of the nurses' building and the erection of a new stable and industrial shops, the plans for which are now in the State Architect's office for approval. The present census of the institution is 798. There has been no crowding the past year. The fitting up of the rooms in the administration building will provide quarters for about one hundred more patients. Dr. Arthur, the superintendent, states that the only thing in the building line that he now needs is a detached structure for acute cases with a capacity of sixty patients. A very desirable acquisition for the institution would be eighty acres of land to the north and adjoining the present grounds. The land is wooded and would provide a park for patients and sites for buildings, which will be needed for the future expansion of the institution. The buildings are kept in good repair and the superior adminis trative ability of the superintendent is evident in all departments. FREDERICK P. HALL. APPENDIX A. RECEPTION HOSPITAL LAW. Chapter 760, Laws of 1904. AN Act authorizing the city of New York to acquire a site and to lease the same to the state for the establishment thereon of a reception hospital for the insane, and authorizing the commission in lunacy to erect such hospital. Accepted by the city. Became a law May 14, 1904, with the approval of the governor. Passed, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. The city of New York is hereby authorized to acquire by purchase or otherwise, sufficient and suitable lands, conveniently located within the borough of Manhattan in such city, for the use and purposes of a reception hospital for the insane to be erected thereon by the state as hereinafter provided. When such lands shall have been so acquired by the city, and they shall have been approved as to their location, sufficiency and adaptability by the state commission in lunacy, the proper officers of such city shall lease the same at a nominal consideration, to the state commission in lunacy in the name and for the use and benefit of the state, for a term of not less than fifty years, with a privilege to the state of extending such lease for a like term of years. The attorney-general shall examine the city's title to such lands and if satisfied with the validity and sufficiency thereof shall certify the fact to the state commission in lunacy; he shall also approve the form, contents and sufficiency of the lease of such lands, before the same is accepted by the commission. Such lands shall be used by the state for the sole purpose of establishing and maintaining thereon a reception hospital for the insane, in which shall be received not less than two hundred alleged insane and insane persons, for the purpose of affording them such speedy and skilled treatment as may be conducive to their more prompt recovery. § 2. When such lands have been acquired and leased to the state as above provided, the state architect shall prepare necessary plans and specifications for the erection, alteration or construction of suitable buildings for the use and purposes of such reception hospital for the insane, to be approved by the governor and the state commission in lunacy, and to be subject in all respects to the provisions of the insanity law relating to the preparation of plans and specifications for the erection and repairs of buildings for the use of other state hospitals for the insane except as to the per capita cost. The state commission in lunacy shall cause such buildings to be erected, altered or constructed in accordance with such plans and specifications under contracts duly let therefor in the manner and under the terms and restrictions prescribed by the insanity law for the erection, repairs and improvement of state hospital buildings. § 3. The sum of three hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, out of any money in the treasury appropriated for buildings, for repairs and improvements at the state hospitals for the insane may be expended by the commission in lunacy, for the erection, alteration and construction of such buildings, to be expended upon the drafts of the state commission in lunacy and the audit and warrants of the comptroller, pursuant to contracts duly let therefor as herein provided. § 4. This act shall take effect immediately. I have compared the preceding with the original law on file in this office, and do hereby certify that the same is a correct transcript therefrom and of the whole of said original law. JOHN F. O'BRIEN, Secretary of State. APPENDIX B. LIST OF MANAGERS OF STATE HOSPITALS, APPOINTED BY GOVERNOR |