The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-07-13
HSSEI'S ASYLUM BEST
Annual Report of the Mana
gers Of the State Insane
Hospitals.
speciol to the Jerscy Cttv Nelrs.

TRENTON, July 13. 1894 There are 8, 105
lunatics in the State of New Jersey, and it
cost the taxpayers s477, ,5S4 46 to provide for
1914 OF them last year, that being the num-
ber confined in the two State institutions
located at Morris Plains and Trenton.
Eleven hundred and ninety-one lunatics are
cared for in county asylums, nine OF the
twenty-one counties of the State having
their own institutions, and of these the
to the report OF the Managers of the New
,I---->y State Hospital for the Insane, which
h. Just been issued.
While it costs SAT- ,534 46 to care for the
States insane and maintain the State hos
pitfalls. it must be remembered that S54, 900
of this sum was spent on permanent i'm
provements During the fiscal year just
closed many of the very necessary improve
ments have been made at the Trenton
asylum, among them being the erection of
two associate dining room buildings and
fixtures, a new smokestack and the putting
in Of six new tubular boilers. costing in all
about S42, 600 Repairs, new barns and sheds
at Morris Plains cost $4,000 during the
year. There were 905 patients confined in
the Trenton asylum at the date of the re-
port and 1,009in the Morris Plains institu-
tion From the date of its organization,
May Is, 1S4S, to date, there have been treat
ed at the Trenton asylum in all S,0SS.
WORK OF STATE AsYLUMs.
OF the 1909 patients at the Morris Plains
Asvlum 500 are men and 500 are women.
This is an increase of 60 over last year. There
were 251 admitted during this fiscal year 1872
of whom were men and 1l9 women. One
hundred and nineteen were discharged or
died The whole number of persons treated
since the opening of this institution is
1859 The Trenton Asylum, ct the close of
the last fiscal year had balance in it's
treasury of $40. S32. So as against a balance of
$50, ,eS5. rs last year
l-The Morris Plains authorities received
from the State SIG, 1890 for convict
patients during the year and $41, ,28S.70 for
county patients, while for private patients
they received the sum of $1l, ,498. .65 For
the maintenance of county patients they re-
ceiyed Sll7,2S3.46, and with the receipts
from other sources there is a total of S263,
63S. 81 The disbursements for the year
amounted to $250, ,09S oil, leaving cash bal
ance of Sl3, ,55g,76. Including with this bal
anee the amounts due the institution from
counties for maintenance and the value of
fuel, provisions, ETC., now in stock and the
available balance is SiS, 1856.
HUDSoN's ALMSHoUsE
There are 304 patients in The Hudson
County Asylum and 43 in the Passaic County
are kept, they having no regular county
asylum for their insane. In 1889 the Morris
Plains Asylum transferred 100 patients to
the Essex County Asylum, and since that
time few patients are sent out of that
county.
In their report the Board of Managers of
the New Jersey State Hospitals, speaking of
the Essex County Asylum in Newark, say it
is the largest county asylum in the State. 1t
will accommodate 800 patients, and the cost
of buildings and its equipments has been
about half a million dollars. DIR. Livingston
S. Hinckley, the superintendent reported
GIG patients in the Institution, $50 regularly
committed and 81 temporarily committed.
OF those regularly committed 226 are males
and 2333 females. The receipts for the last
fiscal year were 1922, 3,642 81, and the current
expenses were 800, 462 SO, leaving an unex-
pended balance of S22, 1799 93.
ssThis asylum ranks first among the county
asylunls in the State, says the report. Its
sanitary condition is excellent, its manage
ment thorough and intelligent. and it COM
paras fayorably with the State institutions.
DR. Hinckley, the Superintendent is a most
efficient officer, and the excellent condition
of the asylum is due to his management
The total value of the asylum property
of the State is So, ,53S, 405.3S, the Trenton
property being valued at SS01, 100.62 and
The Morris Plains at 81, 737, ,304.75. The per-
sonal property of the former is estimated
to be worth SIG, 100 63, and of the latter
3d.. .S31. So