Biennial Reports Of The Directors And Medical Visitors And Annual Report Of The Superintendent Of The Insane Asylum PDF Download

Excerpt from Biennial Report of the Directors and the Thirty-Ninth and Fortieth Annual Reports of the Superintendent of the Insane Asylum of the State of California (at Stockton): For the Two Years Ending June 30, 1892 To the honorable H. H. Markham, Governor of California: The undersigned Directors of the State Asylum for the Insane at Stockton have the honor to submit to you, as required by law, our biennial report for the two fiscal years ending June 30, 1892, together with the reports of the Medical Superintendent and Treasurer, which are presented herewith. Since the date of our last report many of the projected improvements upon buildings, machinery, and grounds have been completed, and the various buildings of the asylum are in a more satisfactory condition than ever before, while the general management of its affairs by the officers in charge has been commendable and we believe in accord with the purposes and aims of those who have established and perpetuated this important State charity. From the Superintendent's report it will be seen that the number of patients under care and treatment is still greater than the various wards were designed to accommodate. It was hoped that the overcrowding of this institution would be avoided when the other asylums were completed, but thus far there seems to have been but a slight diminution in the number of patients committed here, and the consequence is that the difficulties attending their proper management are greatly increased and the prospect of an improvement in their mental condition materially lessened. There can be no question but that this asylum has sufficient accommodations for all the patients who ought to be placed under one management, and we can therefore only expect relief from its present crowded condition when the other State asylums, now in process of construction, are completed. We have again to report our inability to pay the necessary expenditures for running this institution from the appropriation made for its support by the last Legislature. The deficiency for the year ending June 30, 1891, was $8,220 38, and for the year ending June 30, 1892, $10,764 88, which amounts are represented by bills now on file with the State Board of Examiners. From the report of the Medical Superintendent, it will be seen that the daily per capita cost of maintaining the patients, for the year ending June 30, 1891, was $0 38.9, and for the year ending June 30, 1892, $0 37.3; and we most confidently claim that the cost of maintaining the class of patients here confined cannot be reduced below those rates without seriously jeopardizing the health of the patients, and so reducing their comforts as to greatly lessen their chances for recovery. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.