578 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Mar. 16,

dent and Visitors of the Maryland Hospital, sometimes in
advance and nearly all in the year for which it is levied, so
that the institution was in receipt of maintenance for one hun-
dred and fourteen county and city patients, at two hundred
dollars each, making twenty-two thousand eight hundred
dollars, and sixty-four private patients paying each five dol-
lars per week, (some pay over five dollars per week,) making
sixteen thousand six hundred and forty dollars, being an an-
nual income of thirty-nine thousand four hundred and forty
dollars, which your Committee believe, with proper economy,
ought to support the inmates and their attendants.

Your Committee further reports that they found that said
Hospital, with one hundred and seventy eight patients, and
the ground to be taken care of and looked after, there were
employed seventy persons, whose aggregate salaries are
thirty-six thousand nine hundred and eighty-four dollars per
annum; a number qnite too large, and salaries far in excess
of the amount, which, in the judgment of your Committee,
is necessary for the economical administration of said Hos-
pital. Indeed, the same Institution was managed is 1853,
with one hundred and eighty patients for twenty thousand,
five hundred and twenty dollars and thirty-five cents ; in
1861 with two hundred and nine patients, for less than
twenty-two thousand, nine hundred and twenty dollars and
seventy-seven cents; in 1863, with one hundred and eighty-
five patients for twenty-one thousand, five hundred and for-
ty-five dollars and sixty-four cents, while at the Bay View
Asylum three hundred insane paupers are maintained at an
expense of ninety dollars each per annum,. Monta View
Asylum, near Frederick, ninety-four patients are maintained
at an expense of one hundred and seventy-five dollars each
per annum, and at Mount Hope with two hundred and eighty-
three patients, the expense is about the same as Maryland
Hospital.

At the Marine State Hospital for Insane.............. $208 00

" Illinois " " ............... 226 00

" Penn. " " ............... 163 50

" Willard's Hospital, Mass......................... 17600

In France....................................................... 136 50

In Toronto, Canada.......................................... 131 00

London, England............................................ 129 24

Rockwood, England......................................... 143 00

The building has already cost the State of: Maryland eight
hundred aad three thousand (803,000) dollars, and in 1874,
an additional indebtedness of fifty-three thousand, ose hun-
dred and fifty-three dollars and eight cents was added. In
that year the Hospital authorities asked the State for an ap-