The Portland daily press., 1884-12-27

OF those admitted, 50 we're between 10 and
80 years of age, 80 between 80 and 40 As be-
tween 40 and so, 25 between 80 and 60, "a be-
tween 60 and 20, II between 70 and 80.
Admissions relative to social condition
Married, Males At, females 46; unmarried.
males 81. females "a widows IL, widowers II,
unknown2.
The longest time OF trsstmentiof any one
patient discharged cured was not exceeding
| five years.
The assigned causes of insanity are Jas fol-
| lows: Abortion /, apoplexy2 critical period
of life IL, disappointed ambition 1. domestic
sffiIction s, disappointed affections g. dissoute
life /, eryspelas l. epilepsy IS, fright /, gener-
al paralysis 8, i'll health "a, intempsranee 10,
injury of head 6, injury of spine 2, loss Of
property 4, lactation 2, masturbaton 8, meas
les 2. over-sxertion 2, opium habit 2, puberty
8, puperal 4, paralysis 6, sunstroke A. syphilis
l. spirtualism 1, seDility II, seduction 1, ty-
phoid fever 1, uterine diseases, unknown 46,
violent cold /.
OHe hundred and ifty-eight of those admit
ted during the year were on their first admis-
sion, 27 ON their second. 7 on their third on
their fourth, on their fifth, l on the ninth
and on the twelfth. One has been admitted
twice in the year.
The following was the condition OF those dis
Charged Recovered, 59-27 men ana 80 wom-
en- improved, 3l-20 men aud IL women; un-
improved, 16-9 men and women. OF the SO
discharged recovered 44-21 men and % wom-
en-were on their first admission, 6-3 men
and 3 women, second; 2 women, third; l wom-
an-fourth; FL man and / woman, fifth
l woman, sixth; FL man and woman,
ninth; and man, twelfth.
The mortuary record has been unusually
large, being thirteen in excess Of last gear.
The same obscure epidemic Influence that OF
perated so intensely upon the lives of the in
mates during the winter and spring of 1885, has
prevailed. A portion of the past year the di-
sease attacked very generally those patients
who had passed the meridian of life whose
physical powers were waning. The greatest
mortality was in January, February and
March, IA patients dying during each Of these
months.
The daily average number of patients for
the year has been 454. Forty-three have been
supported by their own means or relatives, 81
entirely by the State. and 355 have received
State aid of 81 90 per week, towns or indivi-
dual6 paying the rest.
The medical treatment of the patients has
varied bat little from that of preceding years.
believe that the moral treatment of the in
sane is very important, and recognize the ab-
solute necessity OF placing such institutions
under the best possible sanitary conditions.
| We have endeavored to direct our attention,
especially during the past six months, to the
ventilation and drainage of the Easements ON
both sides OF the house, but more particularly
| those beneath the hall wards Additional
| windows have been placed in the basement of
the two extreme wings, not only for the better
| ventilation of the Easements but to furnish an
| bers. The same renovation is being carried
| forward in the Easements of the various wings
| for females. Many ordinary repairs and inn
| provements have been made. The pump
| house by the river has been completed and ad-
| mirably meets the purpose intended.
| REPORT OF BUILDING COMMITTEE.
| The last legislature appropriated the sum OF
| $4,000 for finishing the new female pavilion,
| including the furnishing OF heating apparatus,
| plumbing, elevators and grading of the
| grounds. The total amount expended In this
| direction is Sl2, ,722, sum greater than the ap-
preparation, bat it was rendered absolutely
necessary to make the building inhabitable
| The same legislature appropriated $50 900 4 =,
| the cont truction of new male pavilion, In
| cluding the furnishing of heating appar atns
| plumbing, elevators, etc. Under the asol v,
| the trustees have erected by contract a nav
| pavilion for males and a corridor and ,rsmwav
/ connecting the two buildings with aaoh o+hr
| and with the main buildings. Th total q ~
| of building and furnishing was 0.72i ri.
viii require. to properly iurnf sh aud pr ovid
| the grading, some $1,000. nontrsc,a p".' p.o.
been made for the furnitur elevator% srod;nO I1
etc. IL will be seen u .st the I.eis1atnre
called upon for an app fopriatio,a of 800 O00 /
conpiet7 .nis punu Z, and to pay for 81
| penses already lDcurr ed and Lnonev borrowed
| The State has nov All the /hnildings IL .,,I
peed Tor the care of its tasane for the nex
elgnt or ten year unless the rate of insanit
shall increase more thar a hundred fold.
| FINldScIAL.
The tote 4 receipTs for the past year hay
~amonn.eo announces in round Numbers to 500 900; dis
gu, an. Jts $97 600. Resources Nov 80, 1884
SSoi,zgi a. liabi nties $3O,5l358; net resource
~, SzV,, o26, as against same time last year S18
tVo' %. The library has balance in its favo
Su -ounting to $3,225 81, invested as follows
| svings 'oank, $1,000; bonds, $1,000; casl
1854.
FARM PRODUCTS.
TIE farm products were as follows: 200 tom
OF taay, Sl3 bushels of potatoes, 152 bushel
or1ious, 81 bushels beans, SS1 bushels oats, IA;
bushels peas, 500 bushels mangel Deets, 81
\ bushels table beets, 800 bushels rntsbaga turn
ips, 105 bushels parsnps, $50 bushels tomatoes
1900 pounds Hubbard squash, 1,020 pounds
summer squash, 1.100 pounds early cabbage
1886 pounds late cabbage, 20 pounds onion
seed, 1,220 ears of seed corn, $500 cucumbers
is barrels of cucumber pickles. 15 barrels o
apples, 237 quarts of strawberries, 100 quarts
blackberries, 400 quarts rsspberries, 74,27S
quarts milk, 377 pounds of asparagus. The
products of the farm were about up to the
average of former years. The yield of hay
was less and grain unusually large. The nel
profits Of the farm were 81 ,231 81.
THE CHAPLAIN.
Rev. @. +. Penney, owing to illness, has
been unable to condnct the services much OF
the time, and other clergymen have oficated
| in his