Statement of the Salaries of Prison Officers, as per accounts rendered Auditor General, quarterly, and paid by the State Treasurer, during the thirteen months ending November 30, 1847. A. Ferris, Agent from Oct. 31, 1846, to March 20, 1847, $286 33 W. Budington, Clerk, 13 months, 488 66 500 00 466 66 Inventory of Property remaining at State Prison, and belonging to the State, November 30, 1847. WITHOTT THE YARD. Three dwelling houses, one barn and shed, one single wagon and harness, three carts and harness, one horse, and 25 hogs. WITHIN THE YARD. Office. One iron safe and books, two stoves and pipe, one clock, two book cases, one desk, one table, one settee, one library case, six chairs, one set legislative documents and journals from 1838 to 1846, one copy revised statutes of 1838 and 1847; convict library, 200 vols. Prison.-Four large stoves and pipe, medicine case and contents, one cooking stove and furniture, bedsteads and bedding for 130 convicts. Shops.-Sundry shafts and belts, two single carding machines, one picker, one spinning jack, five looms, one lather, one stocking loom, one copper kettle, four stoves and pipe, two tailors tables and tools, barbers tools, four keepers desks, carpenters and blacksmiths tools. Yard.-500 cords wood, 4053 feet cut stone for coping wall, 324 feet cut stone for cells, 1000 feet cut stone for centre building, 20 cords rough stone, 3 set stone cutters tools, 9 wheelbarrows, 15 shovels, 6 picks, 9 crow bars, 12 hammers, 6 trowels, 3 buck saws, 4 axes, one bell and hangings, washroom fixtures and imple ments. Miscellaneous.-150 yards sheeting, 70 yards stripe, lot sewing silk, thread and buttons, one clock in kitchen, 10 muskets and accoutrements, 5 pistols, one six-shooter, kitchen furniture and clothing for 130 convicts, and 340 gallons lamp oil. State of Michigan, County of Jackson. J. H. Titus, agent, and W. Budingtón, clerk, of the state prison, at Jackson, being duly sworn, depose and say, that the foregoing statements and inventory are correct and true, according to the best of their knowledge and belief. J. H. TITUS, W. BUDINGTON. Subscribed and sworn before me, Dec. 20, 1847. M. SHOEMAKER, Pres't Board of Inspectors. Estimate of the cost of materials and amount of labor, for erecting, enclosing and completing the Centre Building of the State Prison, and for covering the Yard Wall, &c. Labor and team work, exclusive of what might be done by convicts, 500 00 Contingencies, 350 25 $6,000 00 walls of the yard, Add estimate for covering the north, east and south Necessary repairs on other buildings, 600 00 400 00 $7,000 00 PHYSICIAN'S REPORT. To the Inspectors of the State Prison; GENTLEMEN,-In compliance with your request and the usual custom, I herewith submit my report of the hospital department of this institution. There has been considerable sickness in the prison from Januaary to June inclusive, as will be seen by reference to the following table of monthly prescriptions, which has been kindly furnished by the hospital nurse, to wit: The average number of prisoners during the time was 126, making the ratio of prescriptions 25 and a fraction for each one,- -over half of the whole number of men have taken but very little medicine. The diseases demanding my interference have been principally subacute inflamation of the mucous and serous membranes, diarrhoeas, dysenterys, influenzas, pneumonias, bronchitis, &c., and later in the season, intermittents, and an occasional remittent fever, rheumatism, neuralgias, &c. When we reflect on the probable habits, moral and physical, of a large majority of the convicts, previous to their confinement here, their detention in county jails, frequently for for a long period of time, necessarily deprived of that corporeal activity so essential to the economy of man's physical nature, and after suffering every species of mental and physical torture, ultimately deposited here. It is truly surprising to witness the signal benefits resulting from the change. The timely and efficient application of a certain saponacious preparation, with suitable physical and moral training, soon introduces to the benighted understanding of the unfortunate culprit, some really important lessons in the "economy of life." There have occurred three deaths in the prison since my last annual report. LP, came here Dec. 22, 1845; crime, larceny; sentence, four years imprisonment. Gave evidences of mental derangement during the first four months after his arrival. After a little corrective treatment, his general health became so good as to enable him to labor almost constantly until Oct. 13, 1846, when he enter ed the hospital, and directed my attention to a disease of the tibia of the left leg, of 30 years standing, which had suddenly assumed a more painful and malignant aspect. It was treated variously, until it had discharged from at least twenty different openings about the circumference of the bone, when being of the opinion that there was evident necrosis of the inner portion, that excision offered a reasonable prospect of ultimate benefit, and after fully representing to him the risks and probable advantages of an operation, at his own solicitation, it was performed on the 20th of April, 1847. He bore the operation well, was comfortable, and appearances were favorable 48 hours, when oedematoid erysipelatous inflamation supervened, followed by a gradual prostration, with sloughing of the flap. No means tried proved competent to arrest it, and on the 28th, eight days after the first operation,the secondary disease alarmingly progressing up the limb, amputation of the limb was decided on and executed, this, with prompt tonic treatment, seemed to arrest its progress for a few days, when the recuperative energies finally failing, he died May 11, 1847, aged 51 years. J— H—, aged 29 years, came April 21, 1843; crime, burglary and larceny, sentence, 6 years; was re-sentenced in this county an additional term of 6 years, for burning the mechanic shops of the prison. Up to the period of his re-sentence, had enjoyed comparative good health, with the exception of a stratoma of eight years standing, fifteen inches in circumference, situated immediately below pouparts ligament, anterior to, and closely attached to the femeral vessels. This 1 removed, May 16, 1846, the parts healed kindly, and in three weeks he was at his labor again. After his re-sentence, he became melancholy, his digestion failed gradually, until it ceased entirely. Emaciation, slow and gradual, supervened, until he became a walking skeleton, a mere shadow of a man. Every expedient was tried to arouse the mental man, and awaken his physical energies, but all proved abortive. He died Aug. 11, 1847, a hypochondriac, being another instance of the sad consequences of mental depression on the physical man. MD-, aged 10 years, came here July 1, 1847; crime, larceny; sentence, one year; brought with him all the evidences of incipient pulmonary consumption, which soon became developed, and resulted in death, Nov. 3, 1837. It is proper for me to add, gentlemen, that in the performauce |