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Title: Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California
Year: 1853 (1850s)
Authors: California. Legislature
Subjects: Legislative journals
Publisher: Sacramento : State Printing
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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in use over aquarter of a century, and extensive repairs are needed. New floorsshould be laid in many parts of the institution—in the laundry, engine-room, etc. This last year we painted the entire building exteriorly andabout two-thirds of the wood-work of the interior. We have changed the heating and steam apparatus from coal to oil,thereby making a large saving. On our own ground on the line of therailroad we established an oil pumping-station. We laid a four-inchpipe for about three fourths of a mile and built a tank, and when theoil car arrives at the station we immediately start the pump and unloadthe car in a very reasonable length of time, thereby doing away withteams for the purpose of conveying the oil to the institution. We have, in conjunction with the Napa County Board of Supervisors,constructed a boulevard by the help of the working patients and ourown teams. This boulevard is not only an honor to the institution, buta credit to the Board of Supervisors of Napa County.
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NAPA STATE HOSPITAL. 49 The general management of the institution under the present oflBcershas been very exemplary. The sanitary condition is as good aspossible, considering the fact that we do not have sufficient water forthe purposes of the institution. There is an abundance of water whichcan be had if the Legislature would make the necessary appropriationtherefor. As to the water-supply we will speak further on. The health of the patients is as good as could possibly be expected.The diet is good. We have experirnented with what is called slop-hoppers in each ward, and find them a success. We need more land. While we have, numerically, many acres ofland, still much of it is not tillable, being rough, rocky hill-sides.What we need is more tillable land—land that will grow vegetables,potatoes, and corn, as well as hay. We deem it not only advisable, butexceedingly necessary, that the class of land which we need should bepurchased for the benefit of the institution; and as such, we

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