AGNEWS STATE HOSPITAL. NOTE: For statistical tables, see Appendix. REPORT OF BOARD OF MANAGERS. For the Fiscal Year ending June 30, 1907. To the State Commission in Lunacy, Sacramento, California. GENTLEMEN: The Board of Managers of the Agnews State Hospital begs to submit its biennial report for the period ending June 30, 1908. accompanied by the report of the Medical Superintendent and the Treasurer, which reports should be considered as part of this report, and to which it is necessary to add but briefly, as these reports to the Board of Managers, including the statistical tables, state fully the operations of the hospital for the two years. You will note by these reports that notwithstanding the very unusual conditions at this hospital, the regular work and maintenance have been about as usual and to this Board satisfactory. The work of reconstruction has not progressed as rapidly nor as far as we hoped and desired, though we have urged it forward as fast as seemed practicable. Nevertheless, we feel that substantial progress has been made and along right lines, which is far more to be desired than great haste. It has been the policy of this Board to use the money intrusted to it in building a first class, substantial, well arranged hospital, not withholding a dollar necessary for this purpose nor spending a dollar for which direct value was not obtained. We trust the results thus far secured are satisfactory to your Board, and such as to warrant your indorsement of the request we shall make of the next legislature for additional appropriation to complete the institution according to plans prepared, and which have met your approval. Before the convening of the legislature we hope each member of the Commission will visit Agnews, inspect the work, and note the active construction going forward. We beg to urge you to do so that you may be fully informed. The demand of the Governor for strict business methods in the conduct of public institutions is welcomed by this Board, and has been a source of strength to it in disbursing so large an amount; as has also his personal interest in the work and desire to have built at Agnews a hospital the best of its kind. For maintenance during the sixty-first and sixty-second fiscal years we recommend the amount carefully estimated by the Superintendent, and which we believe is not a dollar more than will be needed, as follows: For support Total $214,000 00 203,000 00 $417,000 00 We have the sad record to make that since our last report death has removed from this Board two valued members, O. A. Hale and Isaac Upham. By their death the State has lost two useful citizens, this hospital two earnest workers deeply interested in its welfare, and we two able, genial coworkers and dear friends. Both had served many years on this Board with rare faithfulness and interest. To chronicle their service would be impossible in this report. We shall cherish their memory and let their example urge us to greater effort for the institution they served so long. The Board deems it proper at this time to call attention to the salaries paid to the medical staff of this institution. The salaries in all other departments of the hospital have been raised from time to time, whereas those of the medical staff, which were very low in the first place, have remained the same. On account of the increased responsibilities and the very efficient manner in which they are being met and our institution is being conducted, the Board earnestly recommends that you consider this point and that you raise the salaries of the medical staff to a just basis and in keeping with the services rendered. Respectfully submitted. JAMES K. WILSON, President, DR. F. H. BANGS, T. S. MONTGOMERY, DAVID RUTHERFORD, EDWARD WHITE, Board of Managers. ANNUAL REPORT OF TREASURER. To the Honorable Board of Managers of Agnews State Hospital. GENTLEMEN: Herewith find statement of receipts and expenditures for the fifty-eighth fiscal year, beginning July 1, 1906, and ending June 30, 1907: FIFTY-EIGHTH FISCAL YEAR, BEGINNING JULY 1, 1906, AND ENDING JUNE 30, 1907. Cash in hands of Medical Superintendent June 30, 1907.. Total SPECIAL REPAIR FUND. 1,519 23 $36,183 67 $17 00 18,470 62 313 50 398 90 2,500 00 200 00 14.283 65 $36,183 67 FIFTY-EIGHTH FISCAL YEAR, BEGINNING JULY 1, 1906, AND ENDING JUNE 30, 1907. Special appropriations for temporary buildings. $25.000 00 Balance in hands of State Treasurer.. Respectfully submitted. 24.995 39 $4.61 W. M. SONTHEIMER. Treasurer. ANNUAL REPORT OF TREASURER. To the Honorable Board of Managers of Agnews State Hospital. GENTLEMEN: Herewith please find statement of receipts and expenditures for the fifty-ninth fiscal year beginning July 1, 1907, and ending June 30, 1908: FIFTY-NINTH FISCAL YEAR, BEGINNING JULY 1, 1907, AND ENDING JUNE 30, 1908. Cash in hands of Medical Superintendent June 30, 1908. Cash in hands of State Treasurer June 30, 1908.. Total RECONSTRUCTION FUND. 151 30 532 29 $32,086 04 $45 50 197 10 1,769 50 40.00 9,808 30 376 76 105 50 200 00 19,543 38 $32,086 04 FIFTY-NINTH FISCAL YEAR, BEGINNING JULY 1, 1907, AND ENDING JUNE 30, 1908. Appropriation for construction of new buildings. $800,000 00 145,038 43 Balance in hands of State Treasurer June 30, 1908........ $654,961 57 Respectfully submitted. W. M. SONTHEIMER, Treasurer. REPORT OF THE MEDICAL SUPERINTENDENT. For the Biennial Period ending June 30, 1908. To the Board of Managers of the Agnews State Hospital. GENTLEMEN: Two years ago at the date of my report to your honorable body we were busy constructing a temporary hospital for eight hundred houseless patients; at the present date we are equally busy constructing a permanent hospital for a larger number. I must, therefore, say now, as I did then, there is too much need of action to afford much time for reviewing the work of the past two years with which you are all so familiar. We may, however, record the fact that the building of the temporary hospital was successfully accomplished with a very meager appropriation, and before the winter came all were comfortably housed with as good beds, food, and care as they had before the disaster. This successfully accomplished, the emergency met, and the present provided for, we immediately gave consideration to the future, and, without delay, began developing a scheme and plans for a new permanent hospital to embody the latest and most modern ideas of such an institution. Our general plan of the institution we would build was presented to the Governor and to the legislature, and the appropriation we asked was freely given. Then began the preparation of plans in detail, the removing of old buildings, and later the construction of new. Perhaps we have not accomplished in the past two years all we hoped to, and our new hospital is not as near completion as we expected it would be at this time; but, no doubt, we expected too much, for on consideration we find much has been accomplished. Two years ago the ruins of our beautiful hospital, in which we took great pride, stood a monument of the great disaster to sadden our hearts; to-day these ruins are gone, every building of our old hospital, and in their place are arising new buildings; perhaps not as imposing as the old, but we believe better adapted to the purpose, with more of comfort and better facilities for the care and treatment of those committed to our charge. To remove the old buildings with their millions of brick, tons of stone, thousands of lumber, and quantities of other material was a great task and took many months. Determining the general scheme. and arrangement of our new hospital and planning in detail the various buildings was even a greater undertaking, and took much time and thought. The architectural working out of these plans, with drawings and specifications in detail for construction, required many months of a large force. |