STATISTICS of the Hospital from July 14, 1860, to September 30, 1872, (Hospital year ending September 30), for each year. TABLE showing the whole number of patients each year, the the number at the end of each year, the current expenses for each year, and average number, the annual expense of each patient per week for each year the hospital has been in operation. TABLE showing the number of cases admitted from each county from the opening of the Hospital, and the number from each county remaining, September 30, 1871. Not including the special tax levied against countles for support of inmates from each county. HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE AT OSHKOSH. At the session of the Legislature of 1870, a law was passed authorizing the erection of an additional Hospital for the Insane; and it provided for the appointment of a Board of Commissioners, consisting of one from each Congressional District, who, together with the Medical Superintendent of the Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane, shall select a site for the new Hospital. Under this authority, Messrs. WYMAN SPOONER, HIRAM H. GILES, H. N. SMITH, J. T. KINGSTON, E. W. YOUNG and P. SEMPLE, were appointed as locating Commissioners. After an examination of several sites in different parts of the State, choice was made of the location offered by the citizens of Oshkosh, consisting of 337 66-100 acres of land, about four miles north of the city, on the west shore of Lake Winnebago, and near the line of the Northwestern Rallroad. The site is pronounced a good one. Under the same law, when a location was agreed upon, the Governor was authorized to appoint a Board of three Building Commissioners, and on the 16th of September, 1870, Messrs. E. M. DANFORTH, D. W. MAXON and A. M. SKEELS, were appointed such Board. The necessary appropriations were made, and the north wings and central building have been completed, and will be open for the reception of patients about the first of February, 1873. Room will be afforded for the reception of about 250 patients. The Board of Directors met at Oshkosh in December last, and elected Dr. W. KEMPTER, of Utica, N. Y., Superintendent of the Hospital. APPROPRIATIONS have been made for the Hospital, thus far, as follows: 1870. For locating and securing site and commencing the building.. $125,000 00 $44,000 00 ........ 8,000 00 48,500 00 1872. |