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I)(>('i'%ri:.\i' X<>. -J't. [S(^ SSldll
and lias added lircatly to the (-(Hiit'ort and cimvi'nicncc in the
various departments.
4. 'I'lio re])ort of the Superintendent sliows tliat tlie luf^ti-tution
is now tilled to repletion, the inmates numl>ering two
hundred and thirty-six. and thei-e is now on tile two hundred
and thirty-tive applications for adniission. " Some of these are
as yet acute and violent cases, and mi<i'ht, by timely treatment,
he restored; othei's are dangerous to themselves, their families
the community in which they resid(% and are kept under con-stant
restraint in jails or otherwise, in <lifferent ])arts of the
State."" In \'iew of this melancholy fact, coupled witli the
deploraljle and impoverished condition- of our people, your
(\^nnnittee, with great reluctan<'e, feel constrained to recom-mend
what to them appears to be the oidy remedy : that is, an
extension of the luiilding so as to accommodate at least a por-tion
of the more promising or acute cases. In order to accom-
]>lish this desirable end, they recommend that a S])ecial tax be
levied of one-twelftli (1-12) of one percent, on all of the taxable
property of the State for tlie pui'}>ose <^f defraying the ordinary
curi'ent expenses of the Institution ; also foi- the erection of addi-tional
rooms and apartments, thereby increasing the capacity
of the building. The sum thus raised, your (bmmittee believe,
would l)e sutHcient to defray the ordinary expenses of tlie
ensuing fiscal year, and lor carrying on, we hope to completion,
the work of enlarffing: the bnildiui*'.
5. It is well known that the num1)er of cases of insanity are
rapidly on the increase in our State ; and should we not at
an early day, initiate some measures for the accommodation and
treatment of that unfortunate class, all of th.e acute and curable
cases will so<m have passed into the chronic and incurable ones,
and Avill ])ei'petually haunt as "• doomed spectres *' ourselyesand
oui" children, and be forevei- shut (»nt from the possession of
that greatest of all blessings, /'nfso/i <i)i<l 'ndeUhjenee.
»). The committee recommend that the ])resent law, in sec-tion
twenty-seyen. chapter sixty-seven, laws of lsr)S-'69,
authorizing the drawing ot a warrant by the Sii]>erintendcnt to
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I)(>('i'%ri:.\i' X<>. -J't. [S(^ SSldll
and lias added lircatly to the (-(Hiit'ort and cimvi'nicncc in the
various departments.
4. 'I'lio re])ort of the Superintendent sliows tliat tlie luf^ti-tution
is now tilled to repletion, the inmates numl>ering two
hundred and thirty-six. and thei-e is now on tile two hundred
and thirty-tive applications for adniission. " Some of these are
as yet acute and violent cases, and mi |
