ing, water and electric light plants at a total cost of $75,198.89. The capacity was thus increased to 670 beds, thirty of which are reserved in the hospitals for the sick insane. By the authority of the legislature of 1901 a cottage for women with sixty-two beds was built and put into service November, 1903. The cost of the cottage and its equipment was $34,259.38. At the same time a sixth boiler was added, stokers installed, the equipment of the laundry improved, cement floors made in the basement of the older cottages, and a coal house built. The total cost of these improvements, including the cottage, was $52,458.66. The capacity was then 712, not including beds for thirty sick patients in the hospital cottages. The legislature of 1907 authorized and provided a specific appropriation of $60,000.00 for two cottages (M and 14) with appurtenances, consisting of two small diet kitchens in connection with the hospital cottages and the new cottages, which were constructed in 1907-8. The specific fund being insufficient, these cottages of sixty beds each were equipped by an allowance of $4,095.84 from the Governor's emergency fund. The total cost of these cottages and appurtenances was $64,095.84. The normal capacity is now 801, with thirty beds reserved in the hospital cottages for the sick. Since the opening of the institution numerous improvements have been made. There were built a greenhouse, two root cellars, a garbage house, a mortuary, a blacksmith shop, a carpenter shop, a paint shop, an engineer's shop ($1,916.72), a stable ($5,681.63), a dairy barn ($2,000.00), an addition to the pumping station, four summer houses, fences, and roads, and the farm generally improved. The institution now has nineteen cottages occupied by patients, an administration building, a cold store, laundry, a service building, power house, carpenter shop, a paint shop, mortuary, two farm houses, two stables, a dairy barn, and the usual outbuildings for farming purposes. It is located on a farm of 323.23 acres, and the buildings are placed on a plat of ground of about forty acres, and arranged in the form of a modified quadrangle, with the power house in the center and the cottages on two sides and part of the front. The equipment is fairly complete, and is entirely owned by the State. The water supply is abundant and of good quality. The source is five gang wells, operated by a pumping station, with duplicate boilers and pumps, which deliver the water to the tower near the power house, from which it is supplied by gravity for domestic and all other purposes. This tower was constructed in 1905-6 at a cost of $10,000.00. The illumination is electric and a current of 110 volts is furnished for both inside and outside purposes. It consists of two Ideal automatic engines, 80 and 100 H. P., respectively, and three dynamos, one Westinghouse, 75 k. w., one Commercial, 25 k. w., and one Western Electric, 30 k. w., and all are belt connected. There are 1,607 incandescent lamps, 16 c. p., and twenty incandescent arcs, 5 amperes each, in operation. A complete telephone system furnishes prompt means of communication with all wards and departments. A cold store and refrigerating plant provide safe storage for the perishable supplies, and furnish all the ice required. A sewage disposal plant was built in 1903 at a total cost of $10,198.06, including the intercepting sewer, which effectually disposes of the sewage. The farm and garden usually furnish the supply of fresh vegetables, excepting potatoes. All the milk used is supplied by the dairy. The Eastern District for the Insane, which is tributary to this hospital, is comprised of the counties of Adams, Allen, Blackford, Decatur, Delaware, Fayette, Franklin, Grant, Henry, Jay, Madison, Randolph, Rush, Union, Wayne and Wells. Enrolled at end of fiscal year, September 30, 1908. Daily average number present during fiscal year ending September 30, 789 10 779 774 801 The following is a statement of receipts and disbursements for the eleven months ending September 30, 1907, and the fiscal year ending September 30, 1908: |