HOSPITALS, JAILS, ETC., FROM WHICH INSANE PATIENTS HAVE BEEN

The receipts and expenditures have been as follows:

EXPENDITURES FROM OCT. 1, 1896, тo OCT. 1, 1897.

Telephone rents,

Trustees' expenses,

Superintendent's expenses, mileage, tickets, etc.,

Fares and gratuities to discharged inmates,

Telegrams and telephones,

Postage stamps, cards, etc.,

120 29

177 71

3,644 70

10 40

97 00

527 00

140 00

125 00

425 00

111 67

307 00

Expenses of delegate, trustees and medical director to Balti

The amount received from sales, labor of inmates, produce sold, etc, is

The total expenditure has been.

Which amount, divided by the average number of inmates,

1,186, gives $105.91 yearly, or an expenditure of $2.03 weekly; deduct the amount paid into the treasury from the amount expended, and it gives a net cost of $1.98 weekly. Estimating the cost of the average number of insane (309) at $2.50 per week, it makes the gross cost for average number of prisoner and pauper (877) $1.87 per week.

SPECIAL APPROPRIATIONS.

$3,121 84

125,615 74

Of the appropriations made in 1895 and 1896 for electric lighting, there was an unexpended balance of $543.43. The expenditures under this appropriation for the present year are as follows:

Of the appropriation made in 1895 for a new hospital building, there was an unexpended balance of $4,692.37. The expenditures under this appropriation for the year are as follows:

Of the appropriation made in 1896 for the purpose of increasing the administration accommodations of the asylum, renewing the plumbing in the east and west wings and enlarging its hot-water system, there was an unexpended balance of $5,171.48. The expenditures under this appropriation for the present year are as follows:

118 79

289 32

23 99

43 68

Plumbing, heating apparatus and hot water heater and tank,

2,077 50