feet long. The elegant and commodious buildings are surrounded by ornamental grounds, wood and farming land to the extent of 393 acres, and when some contemplated improvements are added, a complete institution, creditable to the enterprise of the people of Wisconsin, and their philanthropy will suit. ably accommodate the unfortunates needing its protection. One of these needed improvements, is the passage of the Madison and Baraboo railroad through the northeast corner of the hospital farm, which gives the institute the railroad connection, the absence of which has heretofore been a serious drawback to the locality.

STATEMENT of the annual appropriations made in providing for the care and support of the Insane and the purposes for which they have been made:

TABLE showing the whole number of patients each year, the average number, the number at the end of each year, the current expenses for each year, and the annual expense of each patient per weck for each year the Hospital has been in operation.

TABLE showing the number of cases admitted from each county from the opening of the Hospital, and the number from each county remaining, September 30, 1871.

STATISTICS of the Hospital from July 14, 1860, to September 30, 1871, (the Hospital year ending September 30,) for each year.

HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE AT OSHKOSH.

At the session of the Legislature of 1870, a law was passed authorizing the erection of an additional Hospital for the Insane; and it provided for the appointment of a Board of Commissioners, consisting of one from each Congressional District, who, together with the Medical Superintendent of the Wis. consin State Hospital for the Insane, shall select a site for the new Hospital. Under this authority, Messrs. WYMAN SPOONER, HIRAM H. GILES, H. N. SMITH, J. T. KINGSTON, E. W. YOUNG and P. SEMPLE, were appointed as locating Commissioners.

After an examination of several sites in different parts of the State, choice was made of the location offered by the citizens of Oshkosh, consisting of 337 66-100 acres of land, about four miles north of the city, on the west shore of Lake Winnebago, and near the line of the Northwestern Railroad. The site is pronounced a good one.

Under the same law, when a location was agreed upon, the Governor was authorized to appoint a Board of three Building Commissioners, and on the 16th of September, 1870, Messrs. E. M. DANFORTH, D. W. MAXON and A. M. SKEELS, were appointed such Board. Plans were adopted and contracts have been made for the erection of six wings, and a rear building for kitchen, laundry, &c. The work is progressing, and it is hoped that the Hospital will be ready to open for the reception of patients during the fall of 1872; and that when the portion now under contract is completed, it will afford room for 225 patients. The whole amount appropriated by the legislatures of 1870 and 1871, for the erection and furnishing of this Hospital for use, is $251,000.00. Contracts have already been let, for the expenditure of $201,139.80.