. The institutional care of the insane in the United States and Canada . vided fora Board of Trustees consisting of seven persons, two of whomwere to be women, and who should have authority to appoint abuilding committee of three members from their board to haveentire charge of the Medfield Insane Asylum. This building com-mittee was to receive compensation, the amount to be determinedby the Governor and Council. The sum of $500,000 in additionto the amount necessary for compensation and the expenses of thetrustees was appropriated; $250,000 of it in the year 1892; $200,000in 1893 and $150,000
. The institutional care of the insane in the United States and Canada . vided fora Board of Trustees consisting of seven persons, two of whomwere to be women, and who should have authority to appoint abuilding committee of three members from their board to haveentire charge of the Medfield Insane Asylum. This building com-mittee was to receive compensation, the amount to be determinedby the Governor and Council. The sum of $500,000 in additionto the amount necessary for compensation and the expenses of thetrustees was appropriated; $250,000 of it in the year 1892; $200,000in 1893 and $150,000 in the year 1894. The price of the board of patients was also fixed by this act at$ a week. The original Board of Trustees consisted of Miss ElizabethThurber, Miss Mary H. Denny, Dr. John G. Park (late superin-tendent of the Worcester State Hospital), N. Hathaway, JeremiahMurphy, H. M. Federhen and Frederick S. Risteen. They held their first meeting on Thursday, July 21, 1892. Itwas voted that Messrs. Federhen, Hathaway and Murphy shouldbe the building MEDFIELD STATE HOSPITAL 729 On January 2, 1894, a new building committee was appointed,as the members of the first building committee were no longermembers of the Board of Trustees. The new committee consistedof Dr. Park, Mr. Hersey and William O. Blaney. The buildingof the institution had been going on during the previous year andit was practically completed under this building committee. In 1896 a kitchen and two general dining rooms, a power plant,a laundry, an administration building and twelve buildings forpatients being completed, the Governor was notified that the insti-tution was ready to receive patients. On the first day of May, 1896,a transfer of 120 patients, 60 men and 60 women, was receivedfrom the Taunton State Hospital. In the previous February French, of the New Hampshire State Hospital, had beenappointed superintendent. The original plans made by Dr. Moulton and the commissionerswere b
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