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TRUSTEES' REPORT.

OFFICE OF TRUSTEES,

Northern Hospital for the Insane,

To His Excellency, WILLIAM E. SMITH,

Governor of Wisconsin:

OCTOBER 15, 1879.

SIR:-In compliance with chapter 32 of the Revised Statutes, the trustees of the Northern Hospital for the Insane have the honor to present their seventh annual report.

This hospital was opened for the reception of patients on the 21st day of April, 1873.

It was completed with a capacity for the accommodation of 550 patients on the 11th day of January, 1875. Its history, embracing the entire cost of the buildings, furniture and farm, was given in the annual report of the board of trustees, October, 1876.

What most concerns the public at this time is, its management, cost of maintenance, and results.

Since its first opening and up to the 30th day of September last, 1,333 patients have been admitted, of which number 238 have returned to their families or friends fully recovered. Two hundred and two have been discharged improved, 156 have been discharged unimproved, and 190 have died.

It should be observed that when the hospital was first opened for the reception of patients, it had less than half its present capacity; that it was not completed till nearly two years thereafter. That for want of room only 214 patients were admitted the first year. Of this number 117 were transferred to this hospital from the State Hospital at Madison. The remainder, 97, were received from the poor-houses and county jails. That 127 had been insane from two