Steward's Department. Steward-Oscar L. Schwartz. Assistant Steward-Russell L. Campman. Office Manager-Charles Lawrence. Bookkeeper-Allen T. Keely. Assistant Bookkeeper-Wilson Ritter. Clerk-W. Perry Hallman. Storekeeper-Percy Jones. Stenographer-Miss Catherine F. Dewees. The State Hospital for the Insane of the Southeastern District, composed of the counties of Philadelphia, Lehigh, Bucks, Montgomery, Delaware, Chester and Northampton, is located at Norristown, and was established by Act of Assembly of May 5, 1876, P. L. 121, and opened for patients July 12, 1880. The total cost of the institution to May 31, 1922, was $2,397,935.13, expended as follows: Real estate, $1,945,188.65, furniture and fixtures, $355,454.61; machinery, $97.291.87. The expenses for the year ending May 31, 1922, were $887,820.01 The receipts for the same period were, from the State for maintenance, $334,104.93; from counties, $423,936.86; from private patients, $118,154.48; from other sources, $11,623,74; a total of $887,820.01. Number of patients June 1, 1922, 1,373 males and 1,544 females, a total of 2,917; per capita cost per week for the year ending May 31, 1922, $5.36; number of physicians, 8; pathologist, 1; dentist, 1; druggist, 1; other employes and attendants, 515. The Legislature of 1921 appropriated $50,000.00, as follows:-Completing annex building to Male Nurses Home; purchasing additional equipment for power house; additional machinery for carpenter shop; new boiler for soap factory; reconstruction of trestles in coal shed; electric trucks and trailers for hauling food and laundry; making alterations in old chapel building; and to provide for deficiency incurred in purchase of additional farm property. WESTERN STATE HOSPITAL FOR INSANE, TORRANCE P. O., WESTMORELAND COUNTY. Board of Trustees. President-Samuel S. Reighard, Altoona, Blair County. Treasurer-Walter F. Stauffer, Scottdale, Westmoreland County. Secretary-John M. Jamison, Greensburg, Westmoreland County. Henry M. Brackenridge, 604 Park Building, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County. Charles L. Snowden, Brownsville, Fayette County. John D. Walker, Johnstown, Cambria County. Grant Dibert, 160 Fairmount Avenue, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County. Resident Officers. Superintendent-C. R. McKinniss, M. D. Steward (Vacancy). Division of Construction. Six members of board of trustees comprise the building committee. Superintendent of Construction-C. R. McKinniss, M. D. Chief Clerk-(Vacancy). The Western State Hospital for the Insane was established by Act of June 18, 1915, P. L. 1055, as amended by Act of July 6, 1917, P. L. 749, and Act of July 16, 1919, P. L. 774, and is located at Blairsville Intersection (Post Office, Torrance), Westmoreland County. The site contains approximately fifteen hundred acres of tillable farm land and the board of trustees has under option about fifteen hundred acres of mountain land which it contemplates purchasing for water supply purposes. The Legislature of 1915 appropriated for the purchase of original lands, $40,000.00, and for the construction of new buildings and the purchase of contiguous lands the Legislature of 1917 appropriated $400,000.00 For the purpose of proceeding with the construction program the Legislature of 1919 appropriated $250,000.00. The Legislature of 1921 made a deficiency appropriation of $15,000.00, for the period ending May 31, 1921; also $50,000.00 for maintenance for the period ending May 31, 1923; and $150,000.00 for the erection, construction and equipment of buildings. Total recepits for year ending May 31, 1922, $188,566.94; expended for maintenance, $60,636.39; for purposes other than maintenance including new building, $98,665.98; repayment of loans and interest on loan, $25,697.35; total expenditures, including balance on hand, $188,566,94. Number of patients (male) 190. On November 25, 1919, this institution was formally opened for the reception of patients in the temporary dormitory building. This building will house about 200 patients and it is the plan of the board of trustees to utilize the labor of these patients, so far as possible and practicable, in the rougher forms of construction work incident to the erection of said institution. By virtue of the Act of July 16, 1919, the board of trustees was appointed to supersede the Building Commission, thereby taking over the duties vested in said Commission by the Act of 1915. It is the plan of the board to erect this hospital for the care of the chronic insane and to derive its population from the congestion of this class of patients in other existing institutions. The board is protected somewhat in the consummation of this plan by the organic law, which makes it impossible for a judge to commit to this hospital. Its entire population is to be derived by transfer through the Director of the Bureau of Mental Health of the Department of Public Welfare. Up to the date of the formal opening $315,000.00 have been expended for the following purposes: Purchase of land, construction of buildings, repairs to existing appurtenances, operation of farm, general architectural and engineering expenses, administration and incidental expenses. The members of the board of trustees receive no compensation but are allowed their necessary traveling expenses. STATE ASYLUM FOR THE CHRONIC INSANE OF PENNSYLVANIA, SOUTH MOUNTAIN, (WERNERSVILLE POST OFFICE), BERKS COUNTY. Board of Trustees. President-Edward E. Beidleman, Harrisburg, Dauphin County. Howard S. Williams, Ardmore, Chester County. Walter T. Bradley, Ninth and Thompson Streets, Philadelphia. J. Howell Cummings, Fifth Street and Montgomery Avenue, Philadelphia. Simon P. Light, Lebanon, Lebanon County. J. Warner Hutchins, Union League, Philadelphia. Resident Officers. Superintendent-Samuel S. Hill, M. D. First Assistant Physician-W. C. Dorasavage, M. D. Matron-Miss Elizabeth Kutz. Chief Clerk-Jacob B. Ketner. This institution is located at South Mountain (Post Office, Wernersville), Berks County, and was established by the Act of June 22, 1891, P. L. 379. The real estate consists of 975 acres of land, purchased at an expense of $115,301.11, on which are erected the administration building, ward buildings, refectory and assembly hall, day rooms, attendants' dormitory, infirmary, cold storage plant, kitchen, laundry, warehouse, isolation building, industrial building, tuberculosis pavilion, power plant, water filtration plant, sewage disposal plant, and barns, costing $1,036,778.77. The original buildings were turned over to the board of trustees by the building commission, July 21, 1894. The asylum is entirely and specially devoted to the care and treatment of the "chronic insane," which term shall not apply to any person who has been insane for a period less than one year. Only those insane persons who have been transferred from the State hospitals and from the almshouses and poorhouses of the several townships and counties of the State, under the authority and by the permission of the Department of Public Welfare, are cared for in this asylum. The purpose of the institution is the economic maintenance and care of able bodied, quiet, harmless, chronic insane, upon an industrial basis which contemplates their regular, daily, useful employment. The per capita cost for maintenance is fixed by the law at $5.00 per week. Many patients assist daily in the refectory, kitchen, laundry and general ward and house work, while a large number of the men are employed in out-door work, such as farming, gardening, floriculture, painting, carpentering, trench digging, road making, grading, masonry work, and the usual work of a farming population. Large sewing and mending rooms are operated by the women patients, where a great deal of the clothing worn by the inmates is made. A printing office, mattress shop, tailor shop, barber shop and wheelright shop are operated, and in the industrial building the making of mens clothing, towelling, shirting, underwear, stockings, ties, carpets, rugs and cabinet making are carried on successfully. Number of patients June 1, 1922, males 755; females 259, total, 1014. The capacity is 1200 inmates. Present valuation of real estate, $1,369,850.00; of personal property, $211,575.00. Total receipts from all sources for year ending May 31, 1922, $302,885.91; expenses, $302,885.91. The Legislature of 1921, appropriated $94,000.00 for improvements. Total number of officers and employes, 146. The Board of Trustees consists of nine members, appointed by the Governor, three being appointed each year to serve for three years. STATE INSTITUTION FOR FFEBLE-MINDED OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA, POLK, VENANGO COUNTY. Board of Trustees. President-William T. Bradberry, 360 California Avenue, Pittsburgh, Allegheny. County. Secretary-Marshall L. Phipps, Franklin, Venango, County. Treasurer-0. D. Bleakley, Franklin, Venango County. Quincy A. Gordon, Mercer, Mercer County. Josiah N. Davidson, Second National Bank, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County. A. R. Smart, Oil City, Venango County. John A. Wilson, Franklin, Venango County. Frederick H. Coursin, McKeesport, Allegheny County. Thomas J. Blair, 5537 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County. Resident Officers. Superintendent J. M. Murdoch, M. D. Assistant Superintendent-B. A. Black, M. D. Assistant Physicians-Henry B. Gaynor, M. D., Walter R. Livingston, M. D. Steward-George L. Weaver. Engineer-George Hays. Farmer-H. C. Ewalt. Stenographer-Miss Cecelia Conrad. Bookkeeper-Miss Pearl Hockman. Matron-Miss Mary L. Roerig. The State Institution for Feeble-Minded, at Polk, Venango County, was established by Act of June 3, 1893, P. L. 289, which authorized the Governor to appoint five commissioners to select the site and build the institution, and appropriated $250,000 for the purchase of ground and commencement of the erection of the building. The commission purchased 870 acres of land at a cost of $24,750 upon which was erected an administrative building, two educational school buildings, one industrial school building, a building for the accommodation of teachers, a gymnasium, separate dining-rooms for the girls and boys, kitchen, bakery, storehouse, power house, cold storage building, laundry, workshop, two buildings for the storage of clothing, sixteen cottages, containing day rooms and dormitories, and two barns. The principal buildings are so connected by covered corridors that access to any of them can be had without exposure in inclement weather. They are heated by steam and lighted by electricity. The Legislature of 1921 appropriated $950,000.00 for the maintenance and training of the inmates for the two years ending June 1, 1923, and $84,500.00 for improvements. Total cost of buildings, $1,607,963.17; present value of real estate, $1,702,147.37, of personal property, $363,010.26. The receipts and expenditures for the year ending May 31, 1922, were receipts, $573,216.54; expenditures, $573,216.54. Number of patients in the institution May 31, 1922, 1005 males and 1035 females, total, 2040. Number of employes, 314. The institution has accommodations for 1,900 patients and was opened for the reception of inmates April 21, 1897. It is devoted to the care and training of feebleminded children; particularly children incapable of receiving instruction in the common schools of the State, but who may be improved by special methods of instruction. The control of the institution is vested in a board of nine trustees appointed by the Governor. STATE INSTITUTION FOR THE FEEBLE-MINDED AND EPILEPTIC OF EASTERN PENNSYL- President J. Whitaker Thompson, Mont Clare, Montgomery County. Treasurer J. Comly Hall, West Chester, Chester County. Frank G. Hartman, 136 North Duke Street, Lancaster, Lancaster County. J. Hibbs Buckman, 405 Lincoln Building, Philadelphia. Resident Officers. Superintendent-Oscar E. Thomson. Assistant to Superintendent-J. Wersler Thomson. Chief Physician-William J. Steward, M. D. Assistant Physicians-H. D. McDonald, M. D.; Maco Armstrong, M. D. Social Worker-Miss Pauline A. Mead. Matron-Mrs. Louise Tustin. Head Nurse Mrs. Nellie Chapman. Dentist-Charles S. Smith, D. D. S. The institution was established by Act of May 15, 1903, P. L. 446, and is especially devoted to the reception, detention, care and training of epileptic and feebleminded persons, and is so planned as to provide separate classification of the numerous groups. It is intended for the reception of both sexes. Number of patients May 31, 1922, 1,201; total receipts from June 1, 1921, to May 31, 1922, $308,841.29. Total expenditures from June 1, 1921, to May 31, 1922, $388,562.44. Present value of real estate and personal property, $2,920,555.84. Total number of officers and employes, 152. The Legislature of 1921 appropriated $600,000.00 for maintenance for the two years ending May 31, 1923, and $100,000.00 for buildings and repairs. HOMOEOPATHIC STATE HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE, ALLENTOWN, LEHIGH COUNTY. President-Harry C. Trexler, Allentown, Lehigh County. A. L. Kistler, Allentown, Lehigh County. George R. Bedford, Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County. Resident Officers. Superintendent-Henry I. Klopp, M. D. Assistant Superintendent-Harry F. Hoffman, M. D. Waldemar G. Richter, M. D. Gowind S. Hiwale, M. D. Pathologist-Annie E Freese, M. D. Directress of Nurses-Mary H. Murray, R. N. Steward-Horace W. Cooper. Accountant-Norman G. Clymer. |