The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1906-11-22
ANNUAL REPORT OF
COUNTY ASYLUM SHOWS
INSTITUTION TO BE IN
EXCELLENT CONDITION.

Wernicke, Henry Wllke and william
Fenn-of the county asylum for the
year ending June 30, 1906, was read to
the county solons at their session last
Thursday morning by Trustee Wern-
ecke.
The total receipts for the year were
$27, POS. SO and the disbursements were
500, 623 S4 For provisions, $3,OO4. II
were expended. The amount paid in
salaries was $6, $50 45. The amount due
to the institution, from the state and
other counties, on June 30, 1906, was
1923. 203 l6 On that date the total assets
of the asylum were 1854, 34O1l. AT the
end of the fiscal year 1905 (Juue 30, 1900
the total assets of the institution were
$147, S16 9G. The gain during the last
year therefore, was So, j23 10.
The report showed that eleven lots of
the asylum property were sold, during
the year for s., 225; and a fortyacr
farm adjoining the asylum property
was bought for $50.
The report showed that the per capita
cost of board was So "A, the total mum
Der of weeks board furnished being
S,s12 81.
The produce yielded by the asylum
| farm was as follows: Oats. 9, 915 bushels;
rye, 4OJ bushels; pease, AZ bushels; beans;
- bushels; potatoes /, 900 bushels; fodder
corn, $50 tons; beets, 80 tons; hay, 1870
tons.
The report on inmates showed the
following figures; Number of inmates
at the institution June 30, 1905-male,
| 10; female, 56 total 1866 Number ad
mitted this year-male, T. female. o.;
total, 13. Number of inmates at the
institution June 30, 1906-male, III;
female, 90; total, 40 Number dis
charged during the year, l. male. Num-
Der escaped and not found, 2, male.
Number on absent leave-male, /; fe-
male, 2; total, g. Number of inmates
who died during the year, 5, death in
| Ndtll tdSc ltNulllbS lloiii ihlptit uiotoSO'
Number that committed suicide, / (hy
hanging
The report showed that DR.. Thurtell,
the asylum ply sician, had made fourteen
prot essional visits to the institution dur
ing the year. The report of Superin-
tendent Goetgen and Matron, Mrs
Goetgen, was also embodied in the re
port of the trustees, read by Mr.. Wern-
ecke.
The report of the trustees showed that
extensive improvements had been made
during the year. Provision was made
for better fire projections; improvements
We're made in the ventilating system
and apparatus; hardwood floors were
laid in some of the rooms; and hog
barn, 80 by 112 feet, was erected on the
asylum farm.
The report was highly satisfactory to
the county board
That the management of the institu
tion has been, and is, discharging its
duties with much efficiency is shown by
the excellent manner in which the
asylum has been, and is, conducted; by
the large increase in the assets of the
institution; and by the Fact that, de-
spite the increase in the number of
patients cared for, the increased com
forts provided for the patients, and the
valuable improvements made, there was
| in the treasury, at the end of the last
/ fiscal year, So, 900. 90, "a sum larger By
1884 6S than the cash balance Oh hand
June 80, .905.
The annual report of Superintendent
of Assessments Stehn was submitted
and filed. Another report submitted
was that showing the cost of the meet,
ing Of the town, village and city assess
ors of the county to have been $l07.G4.
The report of County Judge Chloupek
was also submitted This showed the
proceedings relative to the examinations
conducted to determine the mental con-
dton of such persons as We're brought
into court to have the question of their
sanity passed upon. During the period
covered by the report sixteen persons
were examined. OF these ten were com
mitted to asylums Some to the county
asylum and others to the Northern