$3,750 00 20,219 99 2,405 75 10,613 16 828 98 10,864 05 4,912 18 3,086 83 3,386 04 187 50 5,519 32 17,153 64 13,647 55 622 97 978 58 1,656 25 LIST OF INSTITUTIONS SUSPENDED, ACCORDING TO THE RECOMMENDATION OF THE COMMITTEE. Magdalen Society, San Francisco California State Woman's Hospital, San Francisco_. Placerville Ladies' Benevolent Society- Grass Valley Ladies' Benevolent Society Pacific Dispensary for Women and Children, San Francisco 1,000 00 Nevada City Ladies' Benevolent Society. St. Boniface Orphan Asylum, San Francisco From a personal examination, we have concluded that all of the following institutions in the City and County of San Francisco, receiving appropriations, and being local in their character, and receiving all their inmates and patients from the said city and county,Total. should be stricken off the list of appropriations, viz.: We are of the opinion that all of the inmates and wards of the above institutions should be cared for in the Alms-house and City and County Hospital of San Francisco. (In addition to the foregoing, your committee have concluded, upon examination and information, to recommend that the following institutions be stricken from the list of appropriations, for the reason that they are all of a local character, many of which were organized upon the only ground that because one county received aid from the State for a like institution, that they should also receive aid for similar purposes: ORPHAN ASYLUMS. In regard to the orphan asylums, there is no specified amount of appropriation made, but they are provided for by a general law which allows any orphan asylum one hundred dollars per annum for each whole orphan; seventy-five dollars per annum for each half orphan, and seventy-five dollars per annum for each abandoned child. The asylums are conducted in a good manner, and have good and trustworthy officers at their heads. The workings of the asylums are in every respect as well as can be expected, and the unusual healthy appearance of the inmates go to show that they are well cared for. We would recommend that the statute be so amended that no orphan asylum, having a less number than twenty-five orphans, should be allowed appropriation from the State, as the inmates of such should be transferred to other or larger institutions. We would further recommend that all orphan asylums should have at their heads responsible Boards of Trustees, and the head officer in charge should be required to make oath, in his quarterly demand to the State Controller, setting forth the name, age, sex, nativity of each orphan and child in the asylum, and the date or time of admission." THE STOCKTON STATE INSANE ASYLUM. In compliance with our duties, we visited this institution and examined into the conduct and management in every particular, and found the Asylum in charge of the following officers: Directors-Obed Harvey, M. D., President; Frank T. Baldwin, Vice-President; Colonel Caleb Dorsey, Donald McLennan, Esq., Honorable Robert Watt, Wm. B. Austin, Treasurer. PERCENTAGE OF RECOVERIES We have collected the statistics of the percentages of recoveries on the admissions in forty-six American Insane Asylums, which show that the percentages of recoveries of the Stockton Asylum compares very favorable with the others, it being the eighth one on the list. We herewith give a copy of the table of such statistics: * Including all who were declared to be of sane mind when discharged. There are but few Asylums that can show or compare its percentages of recoveries with that of the Stockton Asylum, while the average in all is far below that of the Stockton Asylum. Consider It will be seen from the last above table that the average number of commitments to the Stockton Asylum for the six months ending December, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, have been over fifteen a month. We recommend that the above facts should be placed before each of the Judges of the various counties of the State, for the purpose of showing the urgent necessity of sending their insane patients to the Napa Asylum." By thus doing, we are of the opinion that the Stockton Asylum would thereby be gradually relieved of its crowded condition much sooner than it would be by the erection of a new building, which could not be completed and ready for occupation within one year at least. To show in what manner the money for salaries is expended, we herewith give a copy of the pay-roll for the month of December, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, which shows the amount of the salary paid to every one employed at the Asylum, together with their names and the kind of employment they render. It will be seen by the table here presented that there is a large number of patients confined in the Asylum, that the number is increasing, and that the Asylum is in a very crowded condition; in fact, there is not room or accommodations for all that are there now, but still the various counties commit their insane patients to this Asylum, notwithstanding the fact of there being so much unoccupied room and accommodations at the Napa Asylum, all of which commitments are not in accordance with the intention of section twentyone of the Napa State Insane Asylum Act, of which the following is a copy: "SEC. 21. Until the Napa State Insane Asylum for the insane |
