Utica.

Willard.

Fuel and light, year ending September 30, 1912

Hudson River

Middletown.

Buffalo.

* Includes $23,000 worth of coal consumed prior to October 1, 1911.

6279

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RETIREMENT OF COMMISSIONER FERRIS

On December 27, 1911, Dr. Albert Warren Ferris resigned as President of the State Commission in Lunacy. He was appointed to that position on September 23, 1907, by Governor Hughes.

Dr. Ferris was graduated from New York University with the degree of A. B. in 1878, and received the degree of A. M. in 1885. He was graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons (Columbia University) in 1882.

After serving as medical and surgical interne on the staff of Kings County General Hospital, Flatbush, L. I., from 1883 to 1885, he was appointed assistant physician at Sanford Hall, a private institution for the insane, at Flushing, N. Y. Here he remained as physician in charge from 1885 to 1891.

Dr. Ferris served as assistant in medicine in Vanderbilt Clinic, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York city, 1893-1901. He practiced in New York city from 1891 until his appointment to the Commission, making a specialty of nervous diseases.

From 1901 to 1903 Dr. Ferris was a trustee and the treasurer of Rutgers Female College, New York city.

At the time of the founding in 1894 of Pringle Memorial Home for Aged Men, at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Dr. Ferris was an incorporator, and he has since been a trustee and the corresponding and financial secretary till his resignation in 1907.

The New York Neurological Society sent Dr. Ferris to Amsterdam as a delegate to the Congres International de Psychiatrie September 2 to 7, 1907. He spent several weeks abroad during the summer of 1908 studying the construction of hospitals in Switzerland and Germany.

APPOINTMENT OF DR. MAY

Dr. James V. May, Medical Superintendent of the Matteawan State Hospital, was appointed President of the State Commission in Lunacy by Governor Dix on December 30, 1911, to succeed Dr. Albert Warren Ferris, resigned.

Dr. May was graduated from the University of Kansas, receiving the degree of A. B. in 1894. His medical education was obtained at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was

graduated with the degree of M. D. in 1897. After graduation he served a full term as resident physician at the Philadelphia Hospital (Blockley) now known as the Philadelphia General Hospital. He served as an assistant physician at the Brigham Hall Hospital, a private institution for the insane at Canandaigua, N. Y., in 1899 and 1900. On April 20, 1900, he was appointed as acting assistant surgeon in the United States Army, remaining on active duty until September 10, 1902, and serving over a year in the Philippine islands. In recognition of these services he now holds a commission as first lieutenant in the Medical Reserve Corps of the United States Army. Dr. May has been connected with the State hospital service since the time of his appointment as junior physician at the Manhattan State Hospital, Central Islip, in September, 1902. Shortly afterward he was transferred to the Binghamton State Hospital, where he served in the various grades of the medical staff and succeeded Dr. H. Wardner Eggleston as first assistant physician. Dr. May was appointed Medical Superintendent of the Matteawan State Hospital by Col. Joseph F. Scott, Superintendent of State Prisons, in August, 1911.

CONSTRUCTION AND IMPROVEMENTS NECESSARY FOR THE YEAR

1913-1914

During its official inspections in the fall of 1912, the Commissioners met the managers of the respective hospitals in conference as required by statute upon the needs of these institutions in the way of construction and repair work, including extensions and improvements to existing establishments.

In the succeeding pages will be found the original requests of the hospital authorities and in the second column the revised amounts as recommended by the Commission and incorporated in the preliminary budget sent to the State Comptroller.

As will be noticed, the Commission found it necessary to make a reduction in the total amounts desired from $3,961,929.18 to $3,194,260. The Commission requests an addition in the lump sum annually allowed for miscellaneous repairs, improvements, emergencies and equipment of $100,000, making the amount required for the coming year $300,000; also an appropriation of