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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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20,257 38 Paid on account of claims allowed by Board of Managers during the twelve months ending June 30, 1902 - 17,181 90 .$37,439 28 Respectfully submitted. C. B. SEELEY, Treasurer.Dated July 26, 1902. REPORT OF THE MEDICAL SUPERINTENDENT. To the Honorable Board of Managers of the Napa State Hospital: Gentlemen: I beg to hand you herewith, in tabulated form, the datafrom the records of this Hospital for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1902,that are usually contained in the annual reports required by law fromthe Superintendents and Boards of Managers of the State Hospitals. At the close of last year we had remaining on our rolls 1,514 patients,which showed a gain of seven over the previous year, and the presentyear closes with 1,526 patients under our charge, a gain of twelve duringthe year, and the largest number ever reached in the history of thisHospital. This large and increasing number is greatly to be regretted,being far beyond the reasonable capacity of the Hospital, rendering
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NAPA STATE HOSPITAL. 53 anything like proper classification of patients absolutely impossible andnecessitating the bedding of many patients on the floors of the maincorridors in the wards. This condition of things is largely due to thegrowing habit, on the part of the Superior Judges and medical exami-ners in lunacy, of committing to the State Hospitals many very oldpeople suflering from senile dementia, persons who are more or lesshelpless from partial paralysis, or have become bedridden from somelong-continued infirmity, the majority of which cases can be, and oughtto be, kept in the almshouses and county hospitals, being beyondremedy and requiring only to be cared for and nursed. In this con-nection I would say that in your report to the State Commission inLunacy you can not protest too strenuously against the practice, unfor-tunately sanctioned by the present law, of sending insane criminalsfrom the State Prisons to the State Hospitals. It is a very great wrong,and one that has be

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