MOVEMENT OF PATIENTS DURING THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1905. Stockton. Napa. Agnews. Mendocino. Southern California. Number admitted to June 30, 1905. 307 154 461 167 89 256 419 1,058 436 8 0 8 127 105 232 184 620 556 341 897 3,560 2,193 5,753 5 0 5 18 0 18 48 0 48 168 50 218 249 100 349 1,018 498 1,516 Women Men Mendocino. MOVEMENT OF PATIENTS FOR THE YEAR Ending JUNE 30, 1906. Stockton. Napa. Agnews. Southern Total. REPORT OF SECRETARY. To the California State Commission in Lunacy. GENTLEMEN: I have the honor to submit to your honorable body the following report for the fifty-sixth and fifty-seventh fiscal years: It will be noticed, by reference to the appended table, that the collections at the State Hospitals for the fifty-sixth fiscal year far exceeded previous annual collections, amounting to $106,505.35. The collections for the fifty-seventh fiscal year, on account of the great calamity of April 18, 1906, fell a little short of those of the previous year, amounting to $102,813.62. The collections that have been made by this Commission for the maintenance of patients at the State Hospitals, and turned into their contingent funds, and the expense incurred in the commitment of patients, which has been returned to the State and County treasuries, amount in total for the fifty-sixth fiscal year to $29,491.45, and for the fifty-seventh fiscal year to $27,264.51. The apparent falling off in the fifty-seventh fiscal year's collections is due to the great calamity of April 18, 1906, which rendered many people homeless and penniless who had been in good financial circumstances, and made a continuance of payments to the State Hospitals an impossibility. Monthly reports of collections for pay patients, with names, amounts, and time paid for, are sent to this office monthly from each State Hospital. This is a copy of the report of collections which is sent to the State Controller, with money collected, each month. This list of payments is posted in a "Pay-Patients Ledger" in this office, thereby making the books in this office correspond with the books at the State Hospitals. At stated intervals a statement of account, showing the last amount paid, and the time which it covers, is sent from this office to each payer, with an addressed and stamped envelope inclosed, with a request to sign and return the statement if correct, and if not correct to write particulars. This is done so that the person who pays the money to the hospital can check by this office the correctness of each payment. Payments to and from the patients' personal accounts at the hospitals, which consist of money sent by relatives, friends, and guardians, to be used for the patients' personal comfort, and of which there are several thousand, are required to be evidenced by an original voucher, stub, or receipt on file at the hospital for each item credited or charged to any of these accounts. All books at the State Hospitals affecting receipts and expenditures of the contingent fund, and personal accounts of patients are thoroughly examined and carefully and accurately checked up at least twice each year. I am pleased to report that all moneys collected at the State Hospitals for the maintenance of patients, as well as the money that has been credited to the patients' personal accounts, have been properly accounted for during the last two fiscal years. The Medical Superintendent of each State Hospital is now under a surety bond, which was advised by this Commission, and exacted by the Board of Managers of each State Hospital. Payments made to Hospitals as result of Commission's efforts: Payments made to the Hospitals as result of Commission's efforts: |