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1993.STATE OF NEW YORK —STATE COMMISSION IN LUNACY
REPORT OF THE INVESTIGATION
OF THE
State Commission in Lunacy
AND THE
State Hospitals for the Insane
BY THE
Subcommittee of the Senate Finance and Assembly
Ways and Means Committees
TRANSMITTED TO THE LEGISLATURE MAY 10, 1895
ALBANY:
JAMES B. LYON, STATE PRINTER
1895REPORT OF THE INVESTIGATION
OF THE
State Commission in Lunacy
AND THE
State Hospitals for the Insane
BY THE
Subcommittee of the Senate Finance and Assembly
Ways and Means Committees.
TRANSMITTED TO THE LEGISLATURE MAY 10, 1895.
ALBANY:
JAMES B. LYON, STATE PRINTER.
1895.State of New York
No. SO.
IN S K N A T K,
____ May 10, 1895.
REPORT
OF THE
SENATE FINANCE AND ASSEMBLY WAYS AND MEANS
COMMITTEES CHANGED WITH THE INVESTIGATION
OF THE STATE COMMISSION IN LUNACY AND OTHER
BRANCHES OF THE STATE GOVERNMENT
The subcommittee of the Senate Finance and Assembly Ways
and Means Committees charged with the investigation of the
State Commission in Luniaioy and other branches of the State
government, respectfully report as to the State Commission in
Lunacy that,
It has made careful inquiry into the affairs and the work-
ing of the Commission, and has taken testimony of its mem-
bers and employes. The purport and effect of this inquiry may
be summarized as follows:
The commission was instituted by the Legislature of 1889
(chapter 283 as amended by chapter 273 of the Laws of 1890),
to consist of three members and to supersede with increased4
[Senate,
authority the single commissioner who, previously, since 1874,
had had sole administrative charge of the legal relations of the
State to the insane. This triple basis of the commission, medical,
legal and lay, is modeled after the constitution of the English
lunacy commission, whose operation upon that basis has for
many years been found to be highly efficient and. satisfactory to
the people of Great Britain.
The commission is composed of a physician, who is its presi-
dent, a lawyer and a layman, aiming thereby to secure due atten-
tion to the medical, the legal and the material or business
matters which concern the insane and the institutions for their
custody and care. The commission, collectively and individually,
is invested with a wide range of powers and is charged with a
corresponding extent and variety of duties. Bonne of its func-
tions are these:
It has exclusive authority to direct the administration of the
lunacy laws of the State, and to prescribe rules and regulations
governing the method and the form of commitment of insane
patients to institutions, their transportation to and transfer from
institutions, and the standard of care and treatment to be
measured out to them in State hospitals; to fix the quality of
supplies — food, furniture, clothing, bedding, medicine and
manifold other articles which enter into general maintenance,
medical and physical, of the dependent insane; to maintain a
systematic collection and preservation of reliable statistics con-
cerning the insane; to register every insane patient, whether
public or private, in custody of the State, and to record informa-
tion relating to such patient on a system which admits of easy
application to practical uses; to establish and enforce all safe-
guards found to be needed for the personal liberty or the physical
and moral well-being of the insane not only in State hospitals
and county asylums, but also in the private asylums, homes or
retreats; to visit and minutely inspect at least twice in each
year each institution for the insane in the State; to examine the
condition of grounds, buildings and equipment of institutions;
to approve of plans for repairs, enlargements or new
erections; to inquire into cases of wrong or hardship,
of unjust detention or of abuse of any nature, allegedNo. 50.]
5
or suspected to have occurred to a patient; to regulate
correspondence, parole, service of legal process, requirements
preliminary to and method of admission to State hospitals, etc1.;
to cause financial accounts and transactions of the hospitals to
be kept on a uniform system after forms approved by the comp-
troller; to define conditions for a license of a private asylum and
to revoke licenses for sufficient cause; to determine forms for
monthly estimates of supplies needed by the State hospitals.; also
for ordinary repairs and betterments thereat; toi revise1, com-
pare, allow or disallow items in such estimates with a view to
securing, so far as practicable, uniformity ini price and reduc-
tion in cost to a minimum, for like gradesi and qualities of goods,
whereby wholesale purchases and careful attention to' details
resulted inevitably in large general savingsi. These last-named
duties pertaining to the important pecuniary interests involved
in the maintenance of the insane, and the powers given to1 the
commission to supervise an expenditure of State moneys
approaching to or exceeding $2,000,000, resulted from the pas-
sage in 1893 of the so-called estimate law, chapter 214, Laws
of 1893, under which the hospitals are required to submit in
advance a detailed estimate of each month's requirements to be
scrutinized in the office of the commission and after careful
revision to be approved before any money can be drawn from
the State treasury. In practical operation, this law for the first
year of its existence, from September 30, 1893 to September 30,
1894, enabled the commission to effect a reduction in the cost of
maintenance of the State's dependent insane, as compared with
that cost in the previous year from September 30,1893 when the
former per capita system obtained, of $300,000, including therein
$25,000 for transportation of patients, which sum had not made
any part of the reckoning for the, fiscal year 1892-93, but
was provided for in the figures of the year 1893-94. It appears
that this remarkable result was achieved without in any degree
deteriorating the character or grade of sendee in the hospitals;
on the contrary, in some prime respects the service was greatly
improved through the substitution of superior for inferior quali-
ties of goods.6
[Senate,
There are eight State hospitals, one State hospital for criminal
insane, six county asylums and 18 licensed private asylums — a
total of 33 institutions, which thie commission is required to visit
twice in each year, and oftener, if occasion arises, and to inspect
as to the condition of the buildings and1 grounds, and as to
the management and care of their inmates. The present number
of those inmates is: In State hospitals, including the Matteawan
State Hospital for Insane Criminals, 9,824; in county asylums,
8,831; in private asylums, 830 — total, 19,495.
The commissioners are paid for their services as follows:	To
the medical member, $5,000 per annum; to the legal member,
$3,000 per annum; to the lay member, $10 per day for each day
of actual service; and to each member an allowance of $100 per
month in lieu of all expenses for travel or other purposes.
The scope and magnitude of the service rendered by the commis-
sion in supervising so many institutions for the insane, tenanted
by so large a number of persons drawn from every walk of life
and presenting so many phaises of mental disturbance, and in
guiding and guarding so large an outlay for their care and
treatment, is obviously no small task; it calls for the exercise of
high qualities and of conscientious devotion to the State’s best
interests in both a humane and a material sense. The committee
has been pleased to find evidence warranting the conclusion that
the commission is animated by a proper spirit of zeal and earnest-
ness in its work, and is bringing to it intelligence, energy,
courage and good judgment in a degree worthy of this public
commendation.
Under the amended constitution of the State which took effect
on January 1, 1895, the commission is raised from a legislative
to a constitutional body, and made a permanent branch of the
State government. It is endowed with sole and exclusive juris-
diction over the insane and over all institutions, public or pri-
vate, for their custody; but it has been relieved from all connec-
tion with or charge of the idiotic, the epileptic and feeble-
minded, or other defective and dependent classes. Its present
composition, on the three-fold basis above referred to, is calcu-
lated to insure efficiency in performance and success in admin-No. 50.]
7
istrative results ini a larger measure tlian could be attained by
perhaps any different arrangement. A single commissioner
could not possibly give adequate attention to all the varied
subjects demanding his action; some would necessarily be
neglected or deputed to irresponsible subordinates, to the detri-
ment of the service and the financial injury of the State. A
larger number is1 not needed and would prove unwieldy and
cumbrous, if not fatal to the promptness of decision and the
unity of execution so essential in administering a large trust like
the one in question. To how large dimensions that trust has
grown, in a pecuniary sense, sufficiently appears from the fact
that the commission is required to pass on the merits of special
appropriations for the hospitals which for some years have
averaged over a million dollars yearly, and that this sum added
to the cost of maintenance and of ordinary repairs, etc., brings
up the total expenditure annually subject to supervision by the
commission to over $3,000,000.
While such is the nature and extent of the work done in the
commission’s office, it remains true that the compensation paid
to its employes is relatively lower than that paid in other State
departments bearing little or no financial responsibility.
With this somewhat cursory resume of the testimony relating
to the commission itself, to the organization and operation of its
working force, to the results attained and the service rendered
by it as ,a department of the State government, the committee,
having found nothing but what iis commendable and meritorious,
might be content to rest and to report that in its judgment the
Commission in Lunacy is entitled to public confidence, is hon-
estly and capably discharging its important functions, and merits
the esteqm and favor of the people of the State. But it has
seemed to the committee that it would be useful to make, suc-
cinctly, some exposition of facts and ideas which this inquiry
has supplied concerning the general subject of the State hos-
pitals— their past and present status, their government, loca-
tion, cost, etc., with some suggestions and conclusions that may8	[Senate,
be thought pertinent to the inquiry or valuable in future
legislation.
The care of the dependent insane by the State, in the place of
their support by counties or towns, began in 1843, when thie
Utica asylum was opened to receive patients. It started with no
precedents that might direct its method of organization and
government, but the system then adoipted has been substantially
followed in organizing all the other State asylums (now desig-
nated as hospitals) since instituted, although! conditions then
existing had materially changed, and during the intervening
years great advances have been made in the knowledge, both
scientific and practical, of how insane .persons ini asylums may
best be treated, whether the object be curative or merely cus-
todial. The government of these institutions is vested in a local
board of managers or trustees, empowered to appoint the super-
intendent, officers and employes, subject to civil service rujlesi
The managers are nominated by the governor and confirmed by
the senate. For many years, or until 1874, there was no effective
.supervision over the asylums by any State authority; the State
Board of Charities had power of visitation, but the managers
and superintendents were practically absolute in their control
as to appointment and discharge of subordinates, as to pur-
chase of supplies and direction! of repairs and improvements,
and generally as to the entire management of their institutions.
In 1874, when there were four State asylums including that at
Auburn, for insane criminals with a total of 1,539 inmates* the
first step toward central (supervision was taken in the passage
of an act for the appointment of a State Commissioner in Lun-
acy; but his authority, although much larger than had been pos-
sessed by the State Board of Charities, was far from equaling
the necessities of the case, and after a time the steadily increas-
ing extent and importance of the field over which his juris diction
ran made it physically impossible for one man to do full justice
to all the varied interests of the State, of the institutions, and
of the insane. In viiew of these facts, the Legislature of 1889
abolished the one-head commission land established the present
body in its stead, having reference to a partition of labor and
of attention to the three chief divisions of the work.No. 50.]
9
In Hie one feature of asylum management which, especially
concerns the Legislature, and which comes most directly into
line with the scope and purpose of the resolution under which
your committee is acting, to wit: The purchase of supplies and
the expenditure of State moneys upon repairs, alterations, im-
provements in grounds or buildings, additions to the plant, etc,,
it ought to be said that great looseness of method and almost
complete freedom from check or restraint naturally invited and
often did produce wasteful and extravagant, if not useless out-
lay. The effect of this unfortunate system of local control,
with noi efficient State supervision and no effectual audit of
vouchers for annual expenditures of hundreds of thousands of
dollars of State money, was most obnoxious to sound public
policy, and had been disastrous in real results, practically throw-
ing away large sums upon objects of little or no utility, and
continually wasting at manifold small leaks which proper vigi-
lance would have stopped. The enactment of the law of 1893
which applies business principles to the business of feeding,
clothing and caring for the State’s insane, has, worked a revolu-
tion in this particular, and the large saving effected under it
in a single year amply demonstrates its value and efficacy as
a measure of genuine reform.
The State hospitals have been located without special refer-
ence to the geography or the population of the State, an unfortu-
nate result attributable to lack of central direction; and the
determination of their sites has been a prize to be awarded
to localities able to exert the most legislative influence. The
State Care Act (Chap. 126, Laws of 1890) on this point expressly
confers on the State Commission in Lunacy power to “ recom-
mend the establishment of another State asylum or asylums
in such part of the State as in its judgment will best meet
the requirements of the pauper and indigent insane.” Under
this provision it was intended that no State hospital should
thereafter be created until the commission should have delib-
erately adjudged it to be needed, and the selection of its site
was left to be determined by an impartial body free from local
‘ [Senate, No. 50.]	210
[Senate,
influences and able to select the place most convenient to the
largest number of inhabitants. But, regardless of this pro-
vision, the Legislature of 1894 saw fit to pass an act, without
consulting the commission and against its remonstrance, for the
establishment of another State hospital on what is known a,s
the Collins Farm, in Erie county, some 30 miles from, the Buf-
falo State hospital; a measure, which the commission testified
is not justified by any necessity whatever.
From 1870 to the present time there has been expended at
the several State hospitals upon repairs, improvements, new
buildings, enlarged plant, land, etc., the enormous sum of over
$13,000,000, vhile the increase in the accommodations, i. e., in
the number of beds, has been relatively very small. For the
past eight years the appropriations for that purpose have aver-
aged over $1,000,000 yearly with results, so far as the accom-
modations go, entirely disproportionate to so vast an outlay.
This immense and undue liberality toward the State hospitals
has been secured through the influence of the loical boards of
managers, each one seeking to get all it could for its own and
to spend all it got on its own, quite regardless of the State
as a whole and of any general scheme to provide needed accom-
modations in the most economical and advantageous way. The
new estimate law extended as it was in 1894 to cover the cost
of repairs, etc., has measurably cured some of the bad tendencies
inherent in the former system, but the paramount evil of sepa-
rate appropriations made on ex parte representations of the
needs of each hospital, irrespective of the real requirements of
the State, remains to be remedied.
The functions of the local managers have gradually diminished
and their usefulness, except in a visitoria! sense, may well be
questioned; if retained at all, they should be of uniform number,
not exceeding five; should reside in the immediate vicinity of
the hospital, be appointed by the Supreme Court of the district,
and be debarred from holding any legislative or State executive
office. It is a further impeachment of the present method in
vogue for procuring special appropriations that, despite theNo. 50.]
11
large sums annually voted, the necessary repairs and improve-
ments have not kept pace with the outlay.
According to the best obtainable information of the present
conditions and of reasonable foresight, there is not and for
some years to come there will not be any need of another State
hospital.
It was clearly shown in testimony that the salaries of officers
at the hospitals are unequal, and when joined to their allow-
ances may rightly be characterized as excessive. The method
of fixing salaries is irregular and haphazard, with a, constant
ter dene y to increases in individual instances, and the aggregate
paid for salaries amounts to over one-thirteenth of the entire
cost of maintenance. The superintendents are, perhaps, the
highest paid officers in the State's employ for a like rate of
service; their tenure is for good behavior; they are provided
with substantially every expense of living except clothing, even
including daily newspapers, medical books and journals; and
without reference to the professional qualifications of the in-
cumbents, it may be doubted if the present system of allow-
ances ought to be continued without a suitable adjustment of
salaries and allowances on a basis whereby the compensation
would be adequate and even liberal, but not excessive.
In any event, however, the committee is clearly of the opinion
that the practice which now appears to prevail throughout the
entire State, where the system obtains of providing officers with
maintenance in addition to their salaries, of making extra food
allowances for officers, differing in quality from those allowed
to patients and employes, should be at once discontinued, and
the practice which prevails in the army of allowing all com-
missioned officers and private soldiers certain definite rations,
uniform in quality and quantity, should be substituted. The
supplies now allowed in the public institutions, with the pos-
sible exception of the prisons, are of a sufficiently excellent
quality to satisfy the most exacting requirements; and, if the
abuses which are plainly evident are to be abolished, this
practice of distinctions must cease. Certainly no great hard-12
[Senate
ship would be imposed iif the resident officers were required to
purchase out of their liberal salaries the extra food supplies
which they now receive, and which may properly be character-
ized as luxuries.
The system of administration of the hospitals is tainted
with outgrowths from antiquated methods, and oppor-
tunities for abuse of power or wrongful exercise of discretion
are not sufficiently guarded against; indeed, but for the passage
of the estimate law, there is strong ground for belief that a
serious scandal might sooner or later have arisen over dis-
coveries of flagrant wrong doing in connection with the pur-
chases of supplies, favoritism in wages and allowances, or mak-
ing of repairs, etc.
The salaries and wages should be equalized for like grades
of service, and the allowances should be defined and allotted
on a fair and equitable basis. In fact, the time has come when
this policy of the State in allowing lodgings, food, fuel, lights,
servants, horses, carriages, etc., to certain of its public servants,
although it has continued for half a century or longer, should
be carefully inquired into, and, if found objectionable, it should
give way to a general system of uniform pay for the same grade
of service, leaving to the officers affected to meet their own living
expenses as moist of the State’s other employes are required to do.
What is said of officers’ salaries applies, so far as uniformity
goes, with equal force to the wages of subordinate employes;
they should be classified and their pay equalized.
The benefit derivable from a good law adapted to a given case and
fearlessly administered,has been conspicuously shown in the effect
produced by the estimate laws of 1893 as enlarged in 189-1; it has
accomplished a very large saving to the State without in any
respect lowering the standard of care in the hospitals; and it
will go on from year to year saving the State large sums of
money. In fact, the estimate system maintains the standard of
care in a way that no other system of expenditure could do, for
the reason that funds allowed for one purpose — table supplies,
for instance — can not be applied or diverted to other purposes
at the expense of the dietary as was easily the case under them. so.]
13
old methods. With proper modifications of existing law further
important economies are possible. The law should be extended
so as to require hospitals to unite in purchases by contract of
staple articles of supply, thereby insuring uniform excellence
in quality and economy in cost.
The most important recommendation which the committee
deems itself warranted and required by the testimony to lay
before the Legislature, relates to the matter of making appro-
priations for the special needs, actual or assumed, of the State
hoispitals. As before observed, those appropriations, averaging
in amount $1,000,000 yearly, are now made by the. two houses
upon partial information and in separate snms as urged by
representatives of the several hospitals, each one confining
attention to the particular institution on whose behalf the
claim is made. Instead of this slipshod method which ignores
obvious principles of prudence and economy, there should be
a lump sum determined by the commission after full inquiry
to be sufficient for all the probable needs of the State, and
apportioned according to its judgment of where the necessity for
repairs or improvements, new buildings, additional land, etc.,
is moist urgent, and where the convenience or other interest
of the State and of the insane can best be met.
For the purpose of more closely bringing the foregoing to
your attention, your committee submits matters somewhat more
in detail covering the following points:
1.	Salaries of resident officers of State hospitals, showing the
wide diversity which exists.
2.	The salaries and emoluments of superintendents;.
3.	The salaries and emoluments of the assistant physicians
and other resident officers.
4.	The number of servants for superintendents and for all
the officers.	*
5.	The number of persons in families of officers and employes
not on pay-roll receiving full or partial board or allowances.
6.	The number of separate buildings or homes or the apart-
ments of the various hospitals occupied by officers or employes.14
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No. 50.]
(2) Salaries and emoluments of superintendents and officers.
It may be stated in regard to the salaries and emolu-
ments given below, that the estimate of living apartments or
buildings for officers is based upon what is considered to- be
a fair rental value upon the cost of the buildings and furniture
as it is usually estimated in the rent or purchase of apartments
of similar capacity and convenience. It is extremely difficult
to ascertain the cost in each instance, because where the officers’
apartments are a part of the so-called administration building,
it is obvious that it could not be accurately figured out. In the
case of the separate houses, it is only possible to approximately
estimate the cost, except possibly in the case of the superin-
tendent’s house at Ogdensburg, which is stated by the architect
to have cost $15,000, exclusive of excavations and furniture.
Those at Willard, Middletown and other hospitals were built
partly from special appropriations from the State treasury,
partly from the maintenance fund, partly by patients’ labor and
from building materials about the institution, so that an accu-
rate estimate is not obtainable. The other items are based upon
the best evidence obtainable. They are so interwoven, how-
ever, with other expenditures, that nothing more definite can be
stated. It is believed, however, that the figures are exceedingly
conservative.
The following does not include the free and unrestricted use
of postage,* stationery, daily newspapers and various periodicals,
such as magazines, medical books) and journals, the use of tele-
phone, unlimited laundry facilities, use of greenhouses, etc., and
other things of convenience incidental to the machinery of a
great hospital, nor the use of bands of music furnished by the
$tate for entertainments, nor the free use of medicines and
medical supplies. It has been considered that $1 per day — the
usual price, $7 per week — considering the service, and the
quality of the table supplies, would be a fair estimate for each
officer* and each member of his family. In some instances, this
includes the laundry service. In some instances it might appear
that some of the estimates were too low; in others, they might
appear too high; but the committee is of the opinion, from tbe
evidence obtained, that the average of the sum total is below
tne actual value of the emoluments and allowances actually
received.(2) Superintendents' salaries and emoluments, 1S94-5.
16
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(3) Salaries and emoluments of assistant physicians and other
officers.
In title following statement, lack of space forbids the minute
detail which is given in the case of the superintendents, and
the allowances to the other resident officers are therefore
grouped. The use of apartments for the various officers is
estimated at $10 per week each, and the repairs to rooms
and renewals of furniture is estimated at $100 per year in
addition. To those conversant with the structures occupied
by the resident officers of State hospitals and the furniture, this
will be seen to be a moderate statement. The table supplies
are estimated the same as in the case of the superintendents, at
$1 per day, and the wages given are those which appear on
the pay-roll. The maintenance of the servants is placed at $10
per month each.	;
[Senate, No. 50.]	3(3) Assistant physicians and other officers. Salaries and emoluments, 1894-5.
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* 7 suites at $500.	+ 9 suites at $500; 1 cottage at $750. X 8 suites at $500; 1 cottage at $?50.	; § 6 suites at $:00.	|| 7 suites at $506; Tbuilding at
$750. t 5 suites at $500; 1 building at $750.	** 5 suites at $5C0.No. 50.]
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(4) Servants for superintendents and officers.
[Thoee marked with * charged to superintendent.]
An examination of the estimates and youcliers renders it ex-
ceedingly difficult to state to what particular officers the servants
are assigned, in some instances. For example, it is definitely
stated that certain employes are assigned to the superintendent;
others are put down to the administration generally. Care has
been taken, however, to assign them as nearly as possible.
Utica.
Per j ear.
Two waitresses, at $14 and $18*... —................... $384 00
Four chambermaids, one at $16; three at $14............ 696 00
One cook, at $18* ....................................... 216 00
Two cooks’ helpers, at $14 .—.......................... 336 00
One laundress, at $22*................................. 264 00
One coachman (less board), at $50*..................... 600 00
$2,496 00
Willard.
One cook, at $17* ................................. $204 00
One waitress, at $16* ..—.......................... 192 00
One honseworker, at $16 (steward) ................. 192 00
One coachman, at $40* ............................. 480 00
One cook, iat $16 .................................... 192 00
One dining-room girl, at $12 ...................... 144 00
Six honseworkers, at $12 .......................... 864 00
'% , $2,268 00
Buffalo.
One cook, at $20* ................................. $240 00
One kitchen helper, at $14 ........................ 168 00
One chambermaid, at $14 ........................... 168 00
One dlining-room girl, at $14...................... 168 00
One waitress, at $18* ............................. 216 00
One coachman, at $25* ............................. 300 00
, $1,260 0020
[Senate,
Middletown.	Per year.
One cook, at $20*................................. $240 00
One waitress and chambermaid,	at	$20*.......... 240	00
One housekeeper, at $32........................... 384	no
One messenger, at $12.............................. 144	00
One general worker, at $18.......................... 216	00
One dining-room girl, at $17...................... 204	00
One coachman, at $42*............................. 504	00
Two scrubbers, one at $16, one at $26............... 504	00
$2,436 00
Hudson River.
Two chambermaids, at $16*.......................... $384 00
One waitress, at $16*.............................. 192 00
Two cooks, one at $20, one at $25*................. 540 00
One waitress, at $14............................... 168 00
Three chambermaids, one at $13, two at $14......... 492 00
One coachman, at $45*.............................. 540 00
One cook, at $16..................................... 192 00
One waitress, at $12............................... 144 00
$2,652 00
7? s\s* n & Qf/tw
One cook, at $20*....................................... $240 00
Four houseworkers, two at $14, two at $18 . ............ 768 00
$1,008 00
Bingham'on.
one housekeeper, at $25*........................... $300 00
One cook, at $14 (first assistant)................. 168 00
One cook, at $14 (steward).................—....... 168 00
Two kitchen helpers, one at $12, one at $20........ 360 00
Two dining-room girls, at $13...................... 312 00
Four chambermaids, two at $13, one at $14, one at
$17* ........................................... 684 00
One coachman, at $30*.............................. 3(50 00
One stableman, at $18.............................. 216 00
$2,568 00No. 50.]
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St. Lawrence.
Per year.
One cook, at $14*..,................................	$168 00
One chambermaid, at $12*............................... 144	00
One cook, at $12 (steward).... ........................ 144	00
One general worker, at $10............................  120	00
One cook, at $18....................................... 216	00
Two dining-room girls, at $12.......................... 288	00
One general domestic, at $10.........................   120	00
One chambermaid, at $12................................ 144	00
One housekeeper, at $35................................ 420	00
$1,764 00
(5) Persons not on pay-roll receiving full or j^artial board or
allowance.
The following statement shows that 77 persons, outside of
officers and employes who receive compensation, are maintained)
with board, room, heat, light and fuel, either as members of
officers' families, or employes? families. In some instances cer-
tain persons are reported as being employed and receiving main-
tenance without compensation. Assistant physicians are gener-
ally allowed, by resolution of the board of managers, to marry
and to maintain their families and servants, with apartments
for the same.
Utica.
Superintendent, wife and four children.................... 5
First assistant physician, wife and two children.......... 3
8
Willard.
First assistant physician, wife..
Steward, wife and two children.
1
3
422
[Senate,
Hudson River.
Superintendent, wife and child.............................  2
First assistant physician, wife...........................   1
Second assistant physician, wife and two children...... 3
Steward, wife..............................................  1
7
Middletown.
Superintendent, wife and sister-in-law....................   2
First assistant physician, wife and daughter........... 2
Second assistant physician, wife and two sons.......... 3
Third assistant physician, wife and two daughters......	3
Fourth assistant physician, wife and two daughters.....	3
Housekeeper, daughter....................................... 1
Supervisor’s assistant...................................... 1
Third assistant physician, nurse girl....................    1
Three laundrymen............................................ 3
General worker.............................................  1
Housekeeper, nurses’ home................................    1
Housekeeper, nurses’ home, son.............................. 1
Supervisor’s son............................................ 1
One woman..................................................  1
Engineer, wife, daughter and son*........................... &
27
Buffalo.
None.	11
Binghamton.
o
First assistant physician, wife and daughter...........
Q
Steward, wife and two sons ............................
Engineer (resides on premises, without hoard), wife and
three children.......................................... ^
* Receives fuel, light, rent, milk and vegetables.No. 50.]
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Fanner (resides on premises, meat and vegetables sup-
plied), wife and two children .......................... 3
Gardener (resides on premises, vegetables supplied), wife
and daughter..............................................  2
Supervisor's child............................................ 1
15
S*. Lawrence.
Superintendent, wife and two daughters ................ 3
First assistant physician, wife and infants.............. 3
Second assistant physician, wife and infant.............. 2
Third assistant physician,	wife and infant ................... 2
Steward, wife and daughter ..................................  2
12
Rochester.
Superintendent, wife and son.................................. 2
First assistant physician, wife .............................. 1
Second assistant physician, wife.............................  1
/
4
Grand total............................................. 77
(6) Buildings or apartments occupied by officers or employes.
As above stated, it is difficult to give the cost of the apart-
ments or houses occupied by the various officers, or those por-
tions occupied by them, for the reason that they have been
erected partly from special appropriations, partly from the
maintenance fund, partly by patients' labor, and from building
materials on hand for other purposes. Then, too, they have been
added to and improved and enlarged from time to time. There
are no reports or documents at hand or immediately available
from which this information could be furnished. It may be
added, however, that all of these houses have been well built
and are liberally furnished with all modem conveniences; that24	[Senate, No. 60.
the cost of separate houses for the superintendents is in no
instance less than $12,000, including furniture, and from that
sum up to $20,000. If the space occupied in the so-called admin-
istratiiOin buildings by superintendents and officers was allotted
a value on the basis of the cost of the building in each instance,
the rental value herein assigned would be found to be exceed-
ingly moderate. The following figures are merely estimates
from the best evidence obtainable of the cost of the houses and
apartments proper, exclusive of furniture.
Willard.
Estimated value.
Superintendent^ furnished house ....................... $15,000
Steward, furnished house .............................. 5,000
Middletown
Superintendent, furnished house ................. $15,000
Engineer, separate building .....................•,	2,000
Binghamton.
First assistant physician, furnished house............. $6,000
Steward, furnished house ..............................  2,000
Engineer, house ....................................... 1,500
Farmer, house......................................     1,500
Gardener, house........................................ 1,000
St. Lawrence.
Superintendent, furnished house ..................... $20,000
Steward, furnished house .............................. 3,000
Hudson River.
Assistant physician, furnished house................   $6,000
(Estimate does not state whether first or second assistant
physician occupies house.)
J. MULLIN'.
D. E. AINSWORTH.
EPENETUS HOWE.
SAMUEL J. FOLEY.