York, known as Ward's Island, with the appurtenances and land under water adjacent thereto and all the right, title and interest of The City of New York in and to the streets and roads, together with all the buildings and improvements on Ward's Island, and such equipment, furniture and fixtures of the asylums for the insane located thereon as now belong to the City of New York, subject, however, to the estate and easements in said premises acquired by the East River Gas Company of Long Island City in certain proceedings entitled "In the matter of the Application of the East River Gas Company of Long Island City, Plaintiff, Against the City of New York and the State of New York, Defendants;" the report of the Commissioners in which proceedings were confirmed by an order of the Supreme Court, entered in the office of the Clerk of the Appellate Division, First Department, on July 11, 1907, subject, also, to the estate and easements in said premises acquired by the New York Connecting Railroad Company pursuant to a certificate of the Board of Rapid Transit Commissioners authorizing said company to construct a bridge across the East River, duly issued February 13, 1907, and also subject to a certain lease dated June 6, 1913, entered into between the New York Connecting Railroad Company and the Board of Commissioners of the Sinking Fund of the City of New York, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 752 of the Laws of 1900 and pursuant to the resolution of the commissioners of the Sinking Fund of the City of New York, adopted on April 2, 1913, as amended on April 30, 1913, and any renewal thereof. TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the said above mentioned and described premises with the buildings thereon, and the appurtenances thereto belonging unto the said party of the second part, from the 19th day of November, 1912, to be used and occupied by the party of the second part for the care and treatment of the insane for and during the full end and term of fifty years thence next ensuing, yielding and paying therefor unto the said party of the first part, its successors or assigns, yearly, and every year during the said term hereby granted, the annual rent or sum of One Dollar ($1) lawful money of the United States of America, in each and every year of said term. PROVIDED, HOWEVER, That if default shall be made in any of the covenants herein contained on the part of and in behalf of the said party of the second part, or their assigns, to be paid, kept or performed, then and from thenceforth it shall and may be lawful for the said party of the first part, its successors or assigns, into or upon said demised premises or any part thereof, wholly to re-enter and the same to have again, repossess and enjoy as in their first and former state. AND the party of the second part hereto, hereby covenants and agrees to and with the said party of the first part, that the lands, buildings and their appurtenances on said Island, and the personal property therein contained, shall be used by the party of the second part solely for the purpose of a State Hospital for the Insane and for no other purpose. AND the said party of the first part, its successors and assigns, further covenants and agrees that the said party of the second part and its assigns, performing the covenants herein contained, shall and may peacefully have, hold and enjoy said demised premises for the term aforesaid, subject to the right of the said party hereto to cancel the same as aforesaid. IT IS EXPRESSLY AGREED that this lease is made upon the further consideration that the party of the second part shall support and maintain all insane persons of the City of New York, duly committed to its care in the manner provided by law, and in the event of the termination of this lease, adequate provision shall thenceforth be made by the party of the second part for the care and custody of all insane persons who may be inmates of the institution affected. The party of the second part further covenants and agrees to and with the party of the first part that the premises herein demised are to be used during the term hereby granted for no other purpose than the care of the insane, and that in the event of such other use by the party of the second part, the within lease will cease and terminate and become null and void. IT IS MUTUALLY COVENANTED AND AGREED by and between the parties hereto that in case of the termination of the within lease or the expiration thereof, the party of the first part or its successors shall pay to the party of the second part the value at the time of such termination of all buildings that may have been erected and of all improvements that may have been made by the party of the second part on the herein demised premises as to which the within lease is terminated during the ten years immediately preceding the termination or expiration thereof and the amount so to be paid shall be determined by the appraisement of five competent, disinterested persons, two of whom shall be named by the Governor of the State of New York; two by the Mayor of the City of New York and the fifth by the four persons so named. IT IS MUTUALLY COVENANTED AND AGREED by and between the parties hereto that no buildings and improvements shall be made on the herein demised premises during the last ten years of the term herein granted unless the approval and consent of The City of New York shall have first been obtained therefor, nor shall any payment be made by the party of the first part in the event of the termination of the within lease prior to November 19, 1952, for any improvements and buildings erected on the herein demised premises. IN WITNESS WHEREOF the said party of the first part has caused its common seal to be affixed and these presents to be signed by the Mayor of the City of New York and to be attested by the City Clerk of said City, and the party of the second part hath caused these presents to be executed by the Comptroller of the State of New York, and the Great Seal of the State of New York to be hereunto affixed the day and year first above written. (Seal of New York City) Attest: (Great Seal of the State of New York) JOHN PURROY MITCHEL. Mayor of the City of New York. P. J. SCULLY, City Clerk of the City of New York. Deputy Comptroller of the State of New York. Approved as to form: LOUIS N. HAHLO, Acting Corporation Counsel. STATE OF NEW YORK,] COUNTY OF NEW YORK, SS.: CITY OF NEW YORK, On this 29th day of July in the year one thousand nine hundred and fourteen before me personally came P. J. Scully, to me known, who, being by me duly sworn, says: That he resides in the City of New York and is the City Clerk of said city, the corporation described in and which executed the foregoing instrument; that he knows the corporate seal of the said the City of New York, and that the seal affixed to the foregoing instrument is such corporate seal and that the same was affixed thereto by due authority of said corporation, and that he signed his name thereto by like authority, and further, that deponent is acquainted with John Purroy Mitchel and knows him to be the Mayor of the said the City of New York; that he was present and saw the said John Purroy Mitchel execute the foregoing instrument and he thereupon subscribed his name thereto. CHAS. A. GLASER, Commissioner of Deeds, New York City, residing in New FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF THE BUREAU OF STATISTICS The Commission's request for legislative funds to extend its statistical studies by the establishment of a permanent bureau of statistics was granted, and under the direction of Horatio M. Pollock, Ph.D., the work of this branch will now be greatly improved and extended. By reason of the already large insane population of the State, and the admission of over 6,000 new cases annually, a field for statistical study is provided which can be found nowhere else in the country. For six years past elaborate statistical cards have been filled out by each hospital and nearly 60,000 are now being carefully reviewed by the director of the bureau and his trained assistants. The relation of immigration to insanity in the State, the effect of the commingling of races in the causation of mental disease, the influence of imperfect housing conditions, and the maladjustment of conjugal relations, all these as well as other environmental factors, will be carefully studied in the light of their interrelation with mental disturbances. The Commission expects very important results from the careful, systematic progress of this work under Dr. Pollock's guidance. CHANGE IN HOSPITAL ACCOUNTING METHODS After a protracted study at nearly all of the hospitals during the year of the methods of accounting established by the Audit Company of New York three years ago, the Commissioner of Efficiency and Economy expressed the opinion that the present system should be changed to bring about still further uniformity in the financial and other records of the hospitals. Accordingly, at the September, 1914, quarterly conference, a Committee was appointed, consisting of three State hospital superintendents, three hospital stewards, and Auditor Kyte of the Commission, to act with representatives of the Department of Efficiency and Economy in reviewing the whole subject in detail. This committee had not submitted its report at the close of the fiscal year. DEVELOPMENT OF INDUSTRIES AND MANUFACTURES The marked success of constant efforts made at some of the hospitals to keep patients profitably employed has naturally led up to a consideration of the possibility of enlarging the scope of hospital manufacturing departments to an extent which would ultimately make our institutions wholly independent of the prison manufacturing departments in so far as these pertain to clothing, footwear and movable furniture, and even the sash and doors required for new hospital buildings. At the present time the well appointed printing and binding establishment connected with the Utica State Hospital furnishes all the printing and bound books required by our institutions; prints the State Hospital Bulletin, the official handbook of the Commission, and the blanks required by the training schools. The coffee supply for the State hospitals, which is bought in bulk, is also roasted and distributed from this institution. Stockings, brushes, brooms and combs are also sup |