The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-02-24

 Net expense ................... 3o,ooe 4 Average number of inmates
 during the year .. ................ S9 Number of inmates at close of year 39 Deaths during the year. ......... 56
 women ................... 4O
 Children .. .....................
 Total .. ..................... .......-- lU The cost per capita per week has
 been .. ..................... $l 9
 And including the farm expenses. PA The number of cases treated in
 Springside Hospital, men .... 176
 Women ...................... l45
 IOLal ................... - oAl Gases treated in dormitories,
 Men .o1u
 women .................. ....... 4z4
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 The finishing off of the fourth story front has been completed and the entire hospital department removed to that floor. This arrangement has proved most satisfactory, as 1t enables us to re- move all cases of sickness from the ! lower floors of the building, at the same time providing most comfortable and cheering quarters for the sick.
 The extra room afforded by the renlo- val of the hospital department from the third floor has been made good use of. By encouragement of the rooms we have been enabled to provide separate quarters for the old men, who, by req son of age infirmity, are unable to per form manual labor
 The dispensary has been removed to the third floor opposite the operating room. This change is much appreciated by the attending physician and the nurses. The old dispensary room is X now used as store room.
 The general condition and appearance of the home as shown by a recent in spection is good. It is clean and we'll kept. There are, however, improve ments that ought to be made, which, in our opinion, are not only desirable, but very important from a sanitary point of view. The most important of these is the need of modern plumbing. When the nome was built, no provision was made for the ventilation of any of the plumbing, and most of the fixtures that were put in at that time are now out of date. A small approportion has been made for this purpose, and will be judi ciously used as far as it will go.
 Another matter that will receive our earnest attention is the unsatisfactory condition that exists in the mems ward for the insane on the first floor on &C., count of lack of light. Several sug gestions have been made toward inn proving these conditions and the mat ter is being carefully considered
 SPRINGSIDE FARM.
 Amount appropriated ..........$ 5,540.00 Amount expended .............. 5,535.74 Amount expended ........ 4.26 Cash received from the sale of
 products .. ................... oiS.l5 Net expenses ................... 4S56.55 The farm is in first-class condition. The work of cleaning portion of the land of bushes, as referred to in the an- nual report of our predecessors, has | been carried forward and it is expected that about three acres of this land, which will be the best connected with | the farm, will be planted the coming | spring.
 { A large number of chickens were | raised during the past year, and the 1 small outlay required has already l brought in large dividends. We expect l that this coming year will prove rec ord breaker in the number of eggs pro- duced, thereby materially lessening an important item of expense at the home. The receipts from the sale of farm products were much less than last year on account of the loss of a large num- Der of pigs from cholera, the shortage of the hay crop, caused by drought, and the failure to sell our ice crop.
 The products of the farm were, on the 1 whole. satisfactory, especially the crop of potatoes. For the first time in the history of the farm more potatoes have been raised than will be needed for our own consumption.
 HOSPITALS
 Appropriated ... ................S 3,95O.0O Expended .. ................... S,721,0O Cash received on account of
 board ...................... ofuzt Net eNpenses .. ................ S,l5O.t5
 INSANE.
 Appropriated ........,.,.... $l4, ,200.o0 Expended .. .................... l3,6SS.10 UneXpended .................. ol5.3O Cash received for board....... 366.15 Net expense ...........,........ lS,3ln55 of cases at Middletown. 112 Number of cases at Lalleville. ...... Il 1 The expense in this account is lower | than for many years and less than it really should be. The money for the most part is expended for board at the Connecticut Hospital for the Insane a two dollars per week. This is less than 1l | Q