Amount required by Commission for miscellane For Psychiatric Institute improvements.. Grand total. 300,000 00 120,000 00 149,150 00 $3,763,410 00 FINANCIAL STATEMENT OF 1912 AND BUDGET FOR 1913-1914 During the year ending September 30, 1912, the total cost of the department may be summarized as follows: Hospital maintenance account, $6,240,882.01. Construction account, $955,887.56. For administration: For the operation of the Commission's office, $76,955.76; for the salaries and expenses of inspectors, $15,316.68; for the Psychiatric Institute, $24,555.18; for the Bureau of Deportation, $19,343.86; for deportation and transfer, $27,595.38; total, $163,766.86. Grand total, $7,360,536.43. The increase in the cost of administration during the year is due to various factors. The increase of $14,995.38 for deportation and transfer is due to increased activities of the Bureau of Deportation, the Bureau having removed from the State 1,753 alien and nonresident insane as compared with 1,126 the preceding year. An increase in the office expenses of the Commission from $79,278 to $92,272.44, is due to the appointment of additional inspectors and their expenses and to some extent to the natural increase in the volume of the business transacted. The increase in office expenses in the Bureau of Deportation from $918.61 in 1910 to $2,144.88 in 1911 is due to the large increase in the amount of work done by that bureau during the year and to the fact that it has been necessary to obtain one additional room for the use of the office force. The item of $10,000 for the salaries and traveling expenses of the inspector of buildings and the inspector of supplies, constituting an addition to the budget of the past year, was due to the creation of these two additional positions following the investigation made by the New York Audit Company and the State Charities Aid Association and the recommendations following the investigation. The position of assistant auditor at a salary of $2,500 was also created by the Commission for the same reasons. His traveling expenses are met from the general office fund. The assistant auditor has under direction visited a majority of the State hospitals, making detailed examinations and reports upon the financial records and general business administration, including the important matter of the distribution of supplies. These inspections, the Commission believes, will have a wholesome effect upon the employees of the financial departments of the State hospitals. The visits are made at irregular and unexpected intervals, and tend to bring about greater care in accounting methods and a proper recording of the receipt and distribution of supplies. The position of collection attorney was created by the Commission, as stated in another part of this report, for the purpose of increasing the amounts collected for reimbursing and private patients in the various hospitals. Owing to the increased volume of business done by the Commission's office, it was also necessary to make some additions to the stenographic force, which has resulted in an increase of $2,500. This, however, has caused a material decrease in the expenditures for temporary stenographic services. An additional page was employed in the office of the State Hospitals Treasurer which it is expected will result in a considerable reduction in the amount of messenger fees. The expenses of operating the Bureau of Deportation have been materially decreased by rearrangement of the salaries paid to the medical examiner and deputies. Instead of three medical examiners at a salary of $5,000 each per annum, the Commission has, in accordance with the amendments to the Insanity Law (chapter 121, Laws of 1912) provided for one examiner at $5,000 and has created the position of first deputy medical examiner at a maximum salary of $4,000 per annum and second deputy medical examiner at a maximum salary of $3,000 per annum. An assistant physician was transferred from one of the State hospitals to the position of second deputy. An additional stenographer at $600, an additional interpreter at $744, and a woman transportation agent at $744 were also appointed. The total legislative appropriations for the maintenance of the hospitals for the year beginning October 1, 1912, amount to $5,804,891.37. This is an increase of $418,866.37 over the total legislative appropriation of $5,386,025 for the year just closed, which however was $161,755 below the previous year's appropriation. Neither figure includes the hospital receipts from board moneys. The per capita cost of the past year, including unpaid bills, amounted to $203.45, which is an increase of $13.74 over the per capita cost, $189.71, of the previous year due to (1) the natural increase in employees' wages which results from increased |