The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1891-02-06
rHE INSANE HOSPITAL rRtisrEEs
The Quarterly Meeting Held Yesterday
-Contracts Awarded.

tees. of the Delaware State Hospital for
the Insane was held at the institution
yesterday, with Chairman j. J. Black,
M. D., presiding. The superintendent
presented his report for the month of
December, as follows:
Inmates at the date of the report,
169; white males, 75; white females, 81;
eolored males, %; colored females, ~;
admitted during the month, Z; males,
8; females, 2.
The receipt of the money for board
and treatment during the month,
s187.66; sale of material, S492; total
receipts, S192.5S.
A. 7. Robinson offered the following,
which was adopted:
WHEREAS, We, the State Board of
Trustees of the Insane, are authorized
and empowered under and by virtue
OF section IL Of an act creating our
body, being chapter 553 of volume lS,
Laws OF Delaware, to receive and hold
certain buildings and appurtenances
in Sussex County, and.
WHEREAS, The Insane Department
and the Trustees of the Poor In Sussex
County are also authorized and en-
powered by said section to grant and
convey to us the aforesaid building
and appurtenanees at and for the sum
of $4,000; therefore, we being willing
to receive and hold the said building
and appurtenanees, it is
Kosoived, That we, the State Board
OF Trustees of the Insane, will receive
and hold the aforesaid building and
appurtenances; and It is further
'Resolved, That the General Assem-
bly, be requested to make an appropri-
alton providing for the payment OF the
said sum OF $4,000 to the said Trustees
OF the Poor of Sussex County upon the
conveying to us of the said building
and appurtenances under and by vir-
tue OF said section
A Z. Robinson was appointed a COM
mlttee OF one to prepare bill, as an
amendment to the law establishing the
State Hospital, defining the provisions
under which patients can be admitted
to the institution.
A. L. Robinson, Nathaniel Williams,
Lewis Thompson, DR.. j. +. Wilson, Dr.
Hiram II. Burton and Zebulem Hop
kins were appointed committee to
represent the board before the general
session and secure the needed increase
Of appropriation for the the support of
the hospital.
The Governor, Secretary of State and
the members of both houses of the
Legislature were, on motion of DIR. J.
+. Wilson, invited to visit the hospital
on Friday, March o.
The following contracts were award
ed:
Salt meat TO Hart Il Brother, mess
pork, S14 per barrel; fresh pork, 6Is
cents; loln pork, cents, sausage, o
cents a pound; lard, Z cents, and sugar
cured hams, II cents pound. Gro
ceries, W. L. Frank, dried apples, 13
cents a pound; hominy, SO per bushel;
pearl barley, Sl.50 per bushel; Rum
ford's baking powder, S1.l2 per dozen
boxes; butter, in tubs, ~ cents a
pound; dust brushes, 81 ~; whltcwash
brushes, $1.25; sweeping brushes.
$3.50 and $3.50; hand scrubs, 4S cents
per dozen; buckets, three hoops, 81 40;
brooins, three ties, Sl.75 per dozen;
coffee, best Java, 80 cents; Rio, roast
cd, 20 cents, water crackers, cents;
soda crackers, cents; boneless cod
fish, 6ls cents per pound; cheese, 10
oentSi corn starch, s cents; chocolate,
80 cents; hotel candles, 90 cents;
canned Lima beans, 75 cents; canned
asparagrass, 80 cents; canned corn,
30 cents; canned peas, IS cents; canned
tomatoes, So cents; canned peaches,
81: 10 per dozen cans; eggs, market
price; essence vanilla, 81 per dozen bot
quality Hour, $3.50 per barrel: ginger,
pure ground, s cents per pound;
hominy, Sl.10 per bushel; white corn
meal, = cents. yellow corn meal, 3
cents per pound; indigo, Myers, ,33 cts. I;
Sawyer's, % cents per dozen; lemons,
10 cents per dozen; maekerel, 10 cents
per pound; molasseS, 55 cents per gal
lon; mustard, pure ground, 10 cents:
mlnce meat, cents per pound;
matches. Sl,S0 per gross; oat meal, 4
cents; black pepper, pure ground, Is
cents a pound; pepper sauce, 3 cents a
quart peaches, dried, Is cents; evapo-
rated, II centsi prunes, Turkish. 8
cents; rice, Carolina, 81 cents u
pound; salt line, 81; coarse salt, IS
cents a sack; sal soda, 1Is cents n
pound; soapine, Kendall's, $3.50 box;
soap, CASTLE, 10 CENTS pound; ivory
soap, 1880 per box; crystal SOAP,
40 cents per box; Eyanson's oliene soap,
S2.s5 pei, box; Wrigleys sand soap,
Ella per box; split peas, SO bushel;
sugar, granulated, AZ cents, pulyer-
lied, q cents; standard A. Az cents,
standard B, ~ cents, standard c, AZ
cents u pound; syrup, pure sugar, As
cents per gallon; tea. best black, 35
cents, Young Hyson, 35 cents; Oolong,
half chests, t5 cents II pound; cider
vinegar, . cents per gallon. Grockery,
| Lewis Row. Dry goods, S. NJ. Rey-
nolds 4 Co., Mlddletown. Beef, Wells
d Brother, hindquarters, cents; fore.
quarters, cents; shins q cent a
pound. Mutton, John A. Hopkins,
forequarters, 8 cents; veal, hinduuar-
ters, Il cents; forequal-ters, Z cents a
pound. Bread, J. q. Knause, at 8 cents
a pound. Shoes, Reynolds d. Com
pany, slippers, 80 cents; shoes, IS cents
a pair Drugs, n. Il. Danforth.
The following bills were passed: /:
Wells * Brother, $500, 12; George M.
Beeson, SI2l .23; Hart d Brother, $50. 93:
John Is. Taylor, S595.20; Robert Nc
Farlen, sl54; W. L. Frank, ST20. .33;
Diamond Ice Company, SlS.00; 8. NJ.
Reynolds ~ Co, 5420.6S; trustees of
the poor, Sl42.72 q. w Bush Il Sons.
$5Il 81; William Newlove, SEA; Tie
Lobdell Car Wheel Company, SIS. 10:
Lindley c. Kent, S266l; John q.
Brison, 20; J. V. Carlisle Il Co, Sl3. 10 /;
The Speakman Supply Pipe Company,
S.66; james +. Wood a. Co, SEQ. .8l;
Mercantile Printing Company, $lO3. 90;
Every Evening Printing Company,
81. .9Oi DR. Richardson, Tor sundry sup
plies, S2i5.i2; payroll, S4G6.34; N. B.
Danforth, $500.