. The institutional care of the insane in the United States and Canada . he hospital for 1000 patients, and limited the totalcost of said extension to $975,000. Arrangements were imme-diately made for securing plans and entering upon the work ofextension. After the preliminaries were finally completed a con-tract was let for the construction of 12 buildings. The originalcontract for 12 buildings included two psychopathic receptionbuildings, one building each for disturbed men and women, aninfirmary and six cottages. Five larger buildings were built toaccommodate from 104 to 120 patients each,
. The institutional care of the insane in the United States and Canada . he hospital for 1000 patients, and limited the totalcost of said extension to $975,000. Arrangements were imme-diately made for securing plans and entering upon the work ofextension. After the preliminaries were finally completed a con-tract was let for the construction of 12 buildings. The originalcontract for 12 buildings included two psychopathic receptionbuildings, one building each for disturbed men and women, aninfirmary and six cottages. Five larger buildings were built toaccommodate from 104 to 120 patients each, and the six cottagesfrom 40 to 60 patients each. The twelfth building was the nurseshome. In addition to these buildings, a cold storage building andstorehouse, a kitchen for the detached group of buildings, and anew stable were constructed, artesian wells were bored for supply-ing the hospital with water, and a railroad switch constructedextending from the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad to the power the following session, in 1902, Congress provided for an. GOVERNMENT HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE I49 additional administration building, a kitchen building, and acentral power, heat and lighting plant by an appropriation of$425,000, making a total appropriation for the hospital extensionof $1,400,000, to which was added afterwards a little over $100,000for furnishing, etc., completing the sum of $1,500,000 expendedfor the accommodation of 1000 patients; for centralizing thepower, heat and lighting, and for centralized administration,making a per capita cost per patient of somewhere between $1000and $1500. In the midst of this work and before any of the buildings of thehospital extension had been completed and occupied, Dr. Richard-son, who was apparently in good health, suffered a stroke ofapoplexy and died suddenly on the 27th of June, 1903. He was succeeded by the present incumbent. Dr. William , who took charge of the hospital on October 3, 1903. Duringthe intervening
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