Morning journal and courier., 1880-01-23
State Reports.
,e Insane Hospital at middletown-.

The Insane Hospital at MiddletOwn---
 The Fish COmmissiOners' Report.
 The fourteenth annual report of the trus- tees of the Connecticut Hospital for the In- sane at Middletown says that there have been GA persons at the institution during the year.
 The price of board has been $3.75 per week.
 There has been good health generally. Sev-
 eral improvements are mentioned. The trus-
 tees want an appropriation that work may be
 begun immediately on additional buildings
 which are needed and which would save much
 suffering. Accompanying the report of the
 trustees is the report of superintendent Shew.
 This shows that fifteen more patients were
 treated than in any year previous. There
 have been admitted 193, 75 males and 98 fe-
 males, making total of GA present during
 the twelve months Of this number 45 have
 recovered, 33 have been discharged much i'm
 proved, 37 mild cases were exchanged for more
 excitable ones, and 19 have died, leaving 51O
 present at the close of the year-of whom
 246 are males and 264 females. Superin-
 tendent Shew discourages the idea that more
 medicine is needed. Most patients are chron-
 ic cases in which the functional or acute phy-
 sical disturbance has passed away leaving the
 mental habits of insanity. The superintend- S0AA6 AA4SOACoGAAk4J
 fact: '"The exercises in marching and other
 military evolutions have been continued.
 Considerable worthy emulation was created by Dr. Olmstead's promise of 8 handsome
 banner to the company (each ward forming 8
 company) that should obtain the greatest pro- ficiency in marching, the award to be made
 by some impartial military judge. It is worthy of record that the banner was fairly won by the company from our ward of most excitable patients. under the care of Attend ants Jaquith and Fowler"
 The report of the Fish Commissioners says the value of the shad catch last year is esti- mated at $104, 875. The salmon were found to run as far up as the Holyoke dam. What the increase has been isn't known. The Cali fornia salmon seem to have been 8 perfect failure. None were seen after they were de- posted in rivers and streams. They thrived when small, but when turned loose disap- peared. Big fish eat little fish?" Land locked salmon are thriving to some extent. After deprecating 'spot hunters" who catch trout out of season, the Commissioners say they have had many applications from differ ent parts of the State for young trout to stock depleted streams, but as the State has never owned matching house. and consequently has had no facilities for breeding trout they have always declined such requests. An offer has been made recently to furnish young trout al $3 per thousand, deliverable at the matching house. The Commissioners propose to accept ' this offer, and devote portion of the funds appropriated to this purpose. The plan \ would be to furnish 5000 young trout to each applicant, with the understanding that they l should be for stocking public streams (not
 private ponds), and that the parties should pay any necessary expense incurred in trans. portation from the matching house to the place of their destination. This is the plar | adopted by the Commissioners of the State ot New York (except that they have their own
 matching house) and proves very popular. It is believed that it would prove equally ac. | ceptable to the people of this State.
 The Commissioners expended $2, 2S5. 7a | last year and have balance of $81O23 out of the $3, ,O0O appropriated.