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Bookkeeper.

Assistant Bookkeeper. MISS KATHERINE G. SAYWARD. MISS JENNIE WHITING.

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MEMBERS OF THE CORPORATION.

Charles Francis Adams, 2d, Concord.
Francis J. Barnes, M.D., Cambridge.
Mrs. Isabel Barrows, New York.
Rev. Samuel Barrows, New York.
Francis Bartlett, Boston.
John L. Bates, Boston.

Mrs. Luann L. Brackett, Newton.
Charles P. Bowditch, Jamaica Plain.
Miss Ida Bryant, Boston.
Walter Channing, M.D., Brookline.
Eliot C. Clarke, Boston.
Charles R. Codman, Boston.
Franklin L. Codman, Dorchester.
Mrs. Elizabeth E. Coolidge, Boston.
Owen Copp, M.D., Brookline.
Elbridge G. Cutler, M.D., Boston.
Mrs. Alice T. Damrell, Boston.
Miss Dorothy Damrell, Dover.
Thomas W. Davis, Belmont.
Henry G. Denny, Boston.
Francis H. Dewey, Worcester.
William A. Dunn, M.D., Boston.
Rev. C. R. Eliot, Boston.

Edw. W. Emerson, M.D., Concord.
Miss Ellen Emerson, Concord.
William Endicott, Jr., Boston.
Walter E. Fernald, M.D., Waltham.
Mrs. Emily A. Fifield, Dorchester.
Frederick P. Fish, Brookline.
J. Henry Fletcher, Belmont.
Felix E. Gatineau, Southbridge.
Samuel A. Green, M.D., Boston.
Rev. Edw. E. Hale, Boston.
Rev. C. E. Harrington, Holliston.
Charles S. Hamlin, Boston.

Mrs. Huybertie Pruyn Hamlin, Boston.
Augustus Hemenway, Boston.
Mrs. Helen P. Hoar, Concord.
Miss Abby P. Hosmer, Concord.
Clarence B. Humphreys, Boston.

Richard C. Humphreys, Boston.
Thomas L. Livermore, Boston.
Mrs. Margaret C. Loring, Brookline.
John Lowell, Boston.

Arthur Lyman, Waltham.
Frederick Goddard May, Boston.
John C. Milne, Fall River.

Mrs. Emily M. Morison, Boston.
Miss Eleanor S. Parker, Brookline.
Herbert Parker, Lancaster.

Mrs. Anna May Peabody, Boston.
Rev. Francis G. Peabody, Cambridge.
Frederick W. Peabody, Boston.
Mrs. Elizabeth B. Perkins, Boston.
William Taggard Piper, Cambridge.
James J. Putnam, M.D., Boston.
Mrs. Laura E. Richards, Gardiner, Me.
Franklin B. Sanborn, Concord.
Charles S. Sargent, Brookline.
Fred'k C. Shattuck, M.D., Boston.
George B. Shattuck, M.D., Boston.
Benj. F. Spinney, Lynn.

Henry R. Stedman, M.D., Brookline.
Mrs. Mabel W. Stedman, Brookline.
Mrs. Elizabeth Stone, Waltham.
Mrs. Helen G. Swan, Brookline.
William W. Swan, Brookline.
C. B. Tillinghast, Boston.
Mrs. Annie P. Vinton, Boston.
Gilman Waite, Baldwinville.
Erskine Warden, Waltham.
Charles E. Ware, Fitchburg.
Miss Mary Lee Ware, Boston.
Joseph B. Warner, Boston.
George A. Washburn, Taunton.
Mrs. Kate Gannett Wells, Boston.
F. G. Wheatley, M.D., N. Abington.
Mrs. Edith Prescott Wolcott, Boston.
Henry A. Wood, M.D., Waltham,
Miss Caroline Yale, Northampton.

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

TRUSTEES' REPORT.

MASSACHUSETTS SCHOOL FOR THE FEEBLE-MINDED,
WAVERLEY, Dec. 1, 1908.

To the Corporation, His Excellency the Governor, the Legislature, and the State Board of Insanity.

The trustees have the honor to present their annual report for the year ending Nov. 30, 1908.

We have now 1,311 feeble-minded inmates, of whom 1,130 are at Waverley and 181 at Templeton. For the details of the different classes, admissions, discharges and deaths, we refer you. to the superintendent's report, submitted herewith.

Under the change in the by-laws, made at the last annual meeting, brought about by the requirements of the new methods of bookkeeping instituted by the Commonwealth, our treasurer, Mr. Richard C. Humphreys, is relieved of the care and disbursement of the funds received from the Commonwealth, although he still has control of the funds belonging to the corporation. The superintendent now acts as treasurer of the institution, receiving and disbursing, under the direction of the trustees, all moneys appropriated by the Commonwealth for the maintenance and development of the school and all moneys accruing from its operation. He is under bonds for $10,000. The year just closed has seen the completion and occupation of the buildings which we asked for two years ago.

The addition to the northwest building and to the east building, designed for special cases, which were authorized by the Legislature of 1906, are both practically finished, and both will be occupied by January 1 next.

The two additional dormitories at Eliot colony at Templeton

have been completed and are ready for occupancy, but they will not be used before spring, as the boys who would have gone there have been sent to Wrentham to form the nucleus of the new school. We have plenty of material, but patients of suitable age must be fitted for institutional life at Waverley before they can be cared for or be happy at the colony. Those whom we now have at Waverley who are fitted for colony life cannot well be spared at present without crippling the work of the school.

Out of the appropriation made for those two additional dormitories just mentioned, a toilet wing, a new room and a new kitchen have been built there. Eliot colony as now equipped has capacity for 100 inmates instead of 50.

We shall ask for a special appropriation of $6,000 this year to remodel the Waite house, so called, at the farm colony, into a dormitory to hold 50 boys, also to enlarge the kitchen and living room in the farmhouse sufficiently to provide the additional facilities necessary for the care of these new inmates.

We shall also ask for a special appropriation of $5,500 for replacing the wooden stairways in the west building and the girls' dormitory with iron, and for replacing the present outside fire escapes on the boys' dormitory.

At Waverley we have expended successfully this year between $2,000 and $3,000 out of our own appropriations upon the gypsy moth pest. Our grounds showed a marked contrast to those of some of our neighbors, who did not take any steps to prevent the ravages of these marauders.

It was suggested in our last annual report that a distinction existed which ought not to exist between the status of the indigent insane and that of the indigent feeble-minded, and a change in the law was recommended. That recommendation was heeded, and the Legislature, by chapter 629 of the Acts of 1908, provided that such distinction should no longer exist, and that the class of indigent feeble-minded children should have the benefit of State care and support instead of being rated as paupers on the books of their respective cities and towns. A copy of the act is added to the list of laws relating to this school, printed herewith.

With the completion and use of our new manual training

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