TWENTY-FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT To the Legislature: ALBANY, February 3, 1913. In compliance with section 11 of chapter 27 of the Consolidated Laws, which requires that "the commission shall annually report to the legislature its acts and proceedings for the year ending September thirtieth last preceding, with such facts in regard to the management of the institutions for the insane as it may deem necessary for the information of the legislature, including estimates of the amounts required for the use of the state hospitals and the reasons therefor," the State Hospital Commission herewith presents its twenty-fourth annual report, covering the fiscal year beginning October 1, 1911, and ending September 30, 1912. WM. CARY SANGER, Commissioners. REPORT GENERAL OPERATIONS The whole number of insane in the public, and committed insane in the private hospitals of the State on September 30, 1912, was 33,972, divided as follows: Men, 16,271; women, 17,701. The whole number of insane in the State hospitals, including the inmates of the Matteawan and Dannemora hospitals for insane criminals (1,272), on September 30, 1912, was 32,896. The whole number of the insane in licensed private institutions was 1,076. The net increase for the year in all institutions was 661; in the State hospitals, including the criminal asylums, 646; exclusive of the latter institutions, 573. In the licensed private institutions an increase of 15 for the year was reported. The operations of the hospitals and the results of treatment during the year may be summarized as follows: From the fourteen State hospitals there were discharged as recovered, 1,610 patients; as much improved, 557 patients; as improved, exclusive of transfers, 1,072 patients. Two thousand six hundred and ninety patients died during the year. The daily average population of the fourteen State hospitals was 31,580. Of the discharges, 27 were cases of inebriety, 6 were simple drug habitues and 84 others were found to be not insane within the meaning of the statute. |