Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-12-18

pleteness that this school was established to pro-
ducc This desired improvement must neces-
sarily be slow, and it has been compelled to
wait till the more important provision for in
strucdou and practical application should be
made, ont Of the limited means at the command
of the trustees. 1t has been said by those who
have ability and will to aid an enterprise that
shall accomplish the objects of this school, that
the experiment is new and somewhat uncertain,
and it is safer to withhold any larger endow-
ment until success is ensured; then evera proper
facility and. accommodation will be furnished.
But it is thought that some success has been
demonstrated by the graduation of the class of
sixteen, after a course Of three years. OF this
opinion is William knowlton, Esq, OF Upton,
who had previously exercised his wise liberali
ty for the instruction fund of this school, and
for other places Of education; and he has given
practical proof Of his opinion by erecting ON
the east front Of the grounds of the institute, at
a cost of 5000, Il square rubble wall laid in
cement, 800 feet in length, capped with white
granite coping, beveed aud finished with white
granite hammered posts, pointed to agree with
the beyel Of the coping, and the style of Boyn-
ton hall. To commemorate this libcrality and
the homer which attends such a Gift, the trustees
have placed on one Of the gate posts this sim
pie inscriptions This wall-the gift of William
Knowton, Esq, Of Upton-ls71. 1t is properto
remember thar this square rabble wall was well
laid BY Mr.. II. G. Burke, and the posts and
Roche coping do credit to the Pummer
granite company and it should not be for
gotten that Mr.. James White, who has given so
much Of his money and his more valuable skill
for the interests oil this school, volunteered to
oversee and help on the work of this gift of Mr..
Knowlton with consistency and idthfulness,
which was not less important 10 the economy of
the contractors, than to the style and strength
oil the work
STATE LUSATIC HosrITAL.-rhe saith an
nual report Of the trustees of the state lunatic
hospital in this city, just printed, states that the
whole number OF patients there Oct. , 1871 was
i2l, OF whom 200 were males aud 22i females
whole number admitted during the last year
49, OF whom PSI were males and ZIG females
whole number under treatment during the year
$40, 1852 males and 427 females; whole number
discharged 49, PSI males and BOG females; NUM-
Der recovered 2O9, 1906 males aud 1913 females;
number improved $, males and 1 female; died
GO, II males and % females. The average
number of state paupers was "A. OF the whole
number of patients committed during the year
1886 were by the courts. Number of foreigners
committed 17S. The actual cost Of supporting
the state patients during the year, and for
which SO 80 per week each was charged, was
$685. Number of attendants employed 81.
ar in,
the hospital since its opening, January Is, 1888,
is 93S9 of whom I7lG, or more than half were
males The number OF unmarried males is
greater than the number of those who have
been married. while the number OF women who
have been married is nearly 500 greater than the
unmarried. The number discharged and re-
recovered is, males, 2lOl, females 2240; dis
charged hut not recovered males 1874, females
1863.
Ihestatistics for the past year show that near
ly all the patients are persons who have been en-
gagged in mechanical employments. OF farmers
there were 49, laborers 60, machnists II, carpen-
tiers 10, shoemalleys 20, traders 10, clerks 10.
Not single author, clergyman, editor or
lawyer, and but one physician was admitted.
The whole current expenses of the hospital since
1883 have been met and paid out Of its own re-
sources, with the addition only of very mode
| rate allowance made by the state and by dit
ferenl towns for the board Of their pauper in
sane.
The new hospital grounds, comprising over
200 acres have been purchased with money
loaned from the state at Il cost OF $4,000. The
salcof the old grounds with the buildings there,
on, will, the trustees expect, reimburse thcstat
aud furnish funds for the erection OF the new
buildings.
The buildings already on the new grounds
comprising five farm houses, &c. } have been re-
modelled AMI fitted up for families OF GONZALES
cent and quiet patients, some seventy of whom
have enjoyed the benefit of these new homes
since May last, and the change in their condi-
ton, in consequence, the superintendent, DR..
Bemis says, has been most beneficial.
This new plan OF arranging the patients by
families, according to their mental condition,
some fifteen in each house, has been
attended with success and has added
much to the happiness of the
inmates. The new method may prove some.
what more expensive than the old, but the diff
ference is trifing, and should not be brought
into consideration, the report says, in view of
the great advantages of the new system.
The employment of the patients in manual
labor OF some kind has been continued. While
the value of the labor done, as a source of rev.
enue, is of slight Importance, the value Of the
| measure. in curative point of view, is great.
| A belief is expressed, founded upon its success
SO far as carried out that the family system
thus maugurated, can be made to take in at
least two.thirds Of the patients in the hospital,
The total receipts of the year were SIP 1872 u,
aud total expenditures S1O4, 49G.9S; leaving
| balance on hand Of SSlS5.23.