. The institutional care of the insane in the United States and Canada . oviding increased office room and living accommodations forthe officers. In 1900 a cold storage plant was installed wherein can be stored30,000 dozen eggs, several tons of butter, many sides of beef,2000 barrels of apples, and several thousand bushels of potatoes. In 1900 a new stable for the carriage horses was built. In 1903 a new cow barn was built, accommodating 70 cows,14 oxen and other stock. In 1904 a reception building and infirmary for women patientswas built, and one similar to it for the men in 1905 . In 1911 a
. The institutional care of the insane in the United States and Canada . oviding increased office room and living accommodations forthe officers. In 1900 a cold storage plant was installed wherein can be stored30,000 dozen eggs, several tons of butter, many sides of beef,2000 barrels of apples, and several thousand bushels of potatoes. In 1900 a new stable for the carriage horses was built. In 1903 a new cow barn was built, accommodating 70 cows,14 oxen and other stock. In 1904 a reception building and infirmary for women patientswas built, and one similar to it for the men in 1905 . In 1911 a new laundry was built, and in 1914 a fire pump houseand a stable for farm , made necessary by a fire in the oldstable in the winter of 1913-14. Two additions worthy of note are buildings erected for theentertainment and recreation of patients—^both gifts to the hos-pital. Both are situated in the grove in front of the main build-ing. One is a large enclosed pavilion for the women, presented bythe grateful sister of a former patient. The other is a club house. so NORTHAMPTON STATE HOSPITAL 667 for men, containing bowling alleys, a billiard room, and a read-ing and smoking room, presented as a memorial of a trusteewhose services to the hospital had covered a period of 24 years. A review of the early annual hospital reports reveals much ofhistorical interest as well as much that is instructive to the presentgeneration. From these reports we can measure whatever progress hasbeen attained at the present day in the care and treatment of theinsane, in most of which progress the earlier superintendentsblazed the way. The same problems puzzled them that still per-plex us and usually the same solutions were proposed that areapproved at the present time. Indeed, in most particulars andin essentials the early reports read as if they might have beenwritten but yesterday. Some of the subjects written about are introduced into thishistory to show that 50 years ago the best thought o
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