Thirty-first annual report of the Trustees of the Northampton Lunatic Hospital, for the year ending September 30, 1886.

  • Northampton Lunatic Hospital.
Date:
1887
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Credit: Thirty-first annual report of the Trustees of the Northampton Lunatic Hospital, for the year ending September 30, 1886. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    employees. Agreeably to all correct business principles, as well as to the custom at some similar institutions, the hospi¬ tal should be credited with the amount of the value of this labor. But no credit has ever been given for it. Many thousands of dollars might, in this direction, be justly added to the sum above mentioned, as the product of the efforts of the hospital in the promotion of its own material pro¬ gress. In connection with the above exposition, it may be inter¬ esting to know to what extent the tax-payers of the State have contributed to the institution. From a list, furnished by the State treasurer, of all the appropriations made either for the construction, the repairs, or the improvements of the hospital, I find that, from the time of the passage of the act authorizing its erection down to the present day, it has cost the people of the Commonwealth only three hundred and seventy-five thousand five hundred and fifty dollars ($375,550). Chronology of the Hospital. [N. B. The years are the calendar years, and not the official years of the hospital.] 1885— Continued. A large stone tinder-drain was laid in the ravine south of the ice-pond, and the ravine filled by grading. 1886. Ten water-closets in the north wing and centre building were remodelled and furnished with new and improved apparatus. Seven hall floors of the north wing were relaid. A large refrigerator was constructed in the basement of the rotunda. Four hundred and fifty feet of four-inch water pipe was laid to supply the farm buildings and hydrants. A new brick piggery, two hundred and seventy feet in length, with slaughter¬ house, was erected. The old piggery was removed, and a cow-shed, with a hay-loft over it, 128 feet by 44, was built on the same site. Two brick sewers, extending down the bank in the rear of the barns, respec¬ tively 333 and 294 feet in length, were built. A new road was made through the grove in the Fowle lot, opening a direct route to the western part of the farm. One-half of the poultry-house was made into a silo and filled. A new poultry-house was made from the shed which stood adjacent to the large barn. Acknowledgments. The hospital is under obligations, to ladies and gentlemen from Northampton, for the play of the “ Peak Sisters,” and for a representation of the “ District School,” also to the Banjo Club of Smith College for a concert; to Mr and Miss