SupplementARY DATA RELATIVE TO THE STATE HOSPITAL FARMS (See accompanying tables.) Table 1 shows the value and profits of each of the hospital farms in 1915. Taking all the farms together, we find that the total area under9cultivation was 5,553 acres. The value of the farm investment was $1,314,351. The net profits amounted to $176,883, or 13.5 per cent of the farm investment. The net profits per acre were $31.85. As the value of the farms of the institutions located in or near large cities is very high, it becomes difficult for such institutions to make their farms yield a high percentage of profit on the farm investment. The results on the farms of the Buffalo and the Manhattan State hospitals, however, show that by intensive cultivation a farm thus handicapped may still be able to yield a high rate of profit on the investment. Table 2 shows the per capita investment, outlay and profits on each of the State hospital farms in 1915. The per capita farm investment of all the hospitals together was $40.45. The per capita outlay was $3.62, and the per capita profits, $5.44. It is noteworthy that the net profits in most of the institutions exceeded the outlay. The hospitals that had a large per capita outlay also had large per capita profits. This indicates that the farm profits might be substantially increased by an increase in outlay. On the average, each dollar expended in fertilizer, seed, labor, etc., on the farm yielded in farm products $2.50, or a net profit of 150 per cent. An increase of outlay might reduce this percentage of profit but even though it were reduced 50 per cent, the State would still gain materially from the increased total value of products. Table 3 shows the per capita cost of provisions and of outlay for farm and garden, with per capita profit from farm and garden in 1915. It is seen that the total per capita cost of provisions and farm and garden as a rule is less in the institutions having large productive farms than in the others. As previously mentioned, the MAY-1917-B institutions with large farms supply a greater quantity of food to the patients than the other institutions. This would tend to reduce the gain accruing to the former institutions from the profits of the farm and garden. TABLE 1. PROFITS OF STATE HOSPITAL FARMS, 1915 TABLE 2. PER CAPITA INVESTMENT, OUTLAY AND PROFITS ON STATE HOSPITAL FARMS, 1915 TABLE 3. PER CAPITA COST OF PROVISIONS AND OF OUTLAY FOR FARM And Garden, WITH PER CAPITA Profit from FARM AND GARDEN, CIVIL STATE HOSPITALS, 1915 MINUTES OF QUARTERLY CONFERENCE FEBRUARY 27, 1917 Minutes of the conference of State hospital managers and superintendents with the State Hospital Commission, held at the Capitol, February 27, 1917. Present Commissioners PILGRIM, HIGGINS and MORGAN. Secretary EVERETT S. ELWOOD, State Hospital Commission. Willard State Hospital, ROBERT M. ELLIOTT, M. D., Medical Superintendent; Miss BERTHA A. PECK and WILLIAM T. MORRIS, members of the Board of Managers. Hudson River State Hospital, FREDERICK W. PARSONS, M. D., Acting Superintendent; FRANK B. Lown, E. LYMAN BROWN and HORATIO N. BAIN, members of the Board of Managers. Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital, Maurice C. ASHLEY, M. D., Medical Superintendent. Buffalo State Hospital, ARTHUR W. HURD, M. D., Medical Superintendent. Binghamton State Hospital, CHARLES G. WAGNER, M. D., Medical Superintendent, Mrs. ANNIE Devereux MiLLS, member of the Board of Managers. St. Lawrence State Hospital, RICHARD H. HUTCHINGS, M. D., Medical Superintendent, H. PUTNAM ALLEN, member of the Board of Managers. Rochester State Hospital, EUGENE H. HOWARD, M. D., Medical Superintendent. Gowanda State Homeopathic Hospital, CLARENCE A. POTTER, M. D., Medical Superintendent. Kings Park State Hospital, WM. C. GARVIN, M. D., First Assistant Physician, AARON J. ROSANOFF, M. D., First Assistant Physician, Rev. JOHN C. YORK, member of the Board of Managers; CHARLES S. PITCHER, Steward. Brooklyn State Hospital, ISHAM G. HARRIS, M. D., Medical Superintendent. Manhattan State Hospital, HERMAN C. EVARTS, M. D., First Assistant Physician, GUSTAV SCHOLER, M. D., member of the Board of Managers. Central Islip State Hospital, G. A. SMITH, M. D., Medical Superintendent, JAMES MCGREGOR SMITH and Rev. WILLIAM GARTH, members of the Board of Managers. August Hoch, M. D., Director, Psychiatric Institute. RAYMOND F. C. KIEB, M. D., Medical Superintendent, Matteawan State Hospital. CHRISTOPHER J. PATTERSON, M. D., Physician in Charge, Marshall ROBERT B. LAMB, M. D., Physician in Charge, Craig House. Dr. WM. L. RUSSELL, Superintendent, Bloomingdale Asylum. GEORGE A. HASTINGS, Assistant Secretary, State Charities Aid Dr. T. W. SALMON, Medical Director, National Committee for Mental Hygiene. The conference was called to order at 11 A. M. by Dr. Pilgrim, chairman. Dr. PILGRIM: Before beginning with the regular work of the conference, it is but fitting that we devote a short time to the memory of our departed friend and fellowworker, Dr. Mabon, and as I became associated with him upon the very first day of his entrance into the work of caring for the insane in this State, and as I remained in close association with him up to the time of his death, it is perhaps also fitting that I should be the first to speak of his work and worth. Dr. Mabon entered upon his life work in this State in the spring of 1887 when he became an assistant physician in the Utica State Hospital. Dr. Blumer was the superintendent at the time, I was the first assistant physician, Dr. Wagner was the second, and Mr. McGarr was the secretary, and upon the day that Dr. Mabon joined our ranks friendships began which lasted uninterruptedly for nearly thirty years, and which death alone could break. After remaining in Utica for about seven years, Dr. Mabon became the superintendent of the Willard State Hospital where he remained for two years when he resigned to accept the superintendency of the St. Lawrence State Hospital. He remained at Ogdensburg for seven years and had much to do with shaping the destinies of this new institution and in |