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Statement No. 5.

Products of the Farm.

Sweet corn, 200 bushels.
Potatoes, 1,800 bushels.
Cabbage, 8,000 heads.
Hay, first crop, 79 1837/2000 tons.
Hay, second crop, 55 130/2000 tons.
Parsnips, 100 bushels.
Tomatoes, 100 bushels.
Carrots, 80 bushels,
Onions, 275 bushels.
Beets, 75 bushels.
Melons, 1,300.
Beans, 25 bushels.
Squash, 5,000 pounds.
Lettuce, 2,000 heads.
Cucumbers, 100 bushels.
Apples, 175 barrels.
Ice, 100 tons.
Manure, 160 cords.
Cider vinegar, 5 barrels.
Cider, 26 barrels.
Celery, 300 heads.
Pease, 42 bushels.
Greens, 50 bushels.

The Meats slaughtered from the Stock of the Farm amount to --

Beef, 1,161 pounds.
Veal, 1,031 pounds.
Calfskin, 15 pounds.
Hides, 406 pounds.
Pork, 15,091 pounds.

Dairy Products, Etc.

Milk, 23,822 gallons.
Eggs, 1,077 dozen.

Statement No.6.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts in account with Thomas J. Marsh, Superintendent

Statement No. 7.

Appropriation for Repairing Barn.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts in account with Thomas J. Marsh, Superintendent.

Statement No. 8.

Appropriation for the Alteration of the Asylum for the Insane Rooms.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts in account with Thomas J. Marsh, Superintendent.

Statement No. 9.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts in account with Thomas J. Marsh, Superintendent.

Thos. J. Marsh, Superintendent.

This may certify that we have examined the foregoing account of Thomas J. Marsh with the Commonwealth, and find the same correctly cast and properly vouched.

F.H. Nourse,
GEO. P. Elliot,
WM. R. Spalding, Inspectors

To the Honorable Board of Inspectors, State Almshouse.

Gentlemen: -- The Institution during the past year has been free from epidemics, and, especially during the summer, has enjoyed an unusual immunity from disease. The cases presented for treatment are very largely of a chronic and incurable character; but they, perhaps, as well as any, appreciate the benefits conferred upon them.

Our hospital is certainly a good one, -- agreeable, comfortable, and well adapted to its purpose. At certain times, however, the ventilation is not sufficient, and additional facilities in this respect would greatly improve the air of the wards. Screens for the windows and doors are needed in summer as a protection from mosquitoes and flies. We very much need, also, a few single rooms for the isolation of offensive and noisy patients.

The number of motherless and deserted infants sent to us of late has been unusually large. There have been 82 during the last year, whereas there were only 27 in the previous year. They have presented the usual physical characteristics of this class of children, with the usual results, though special efforts have been made for their welfare.

A better building -- as good for the purpose as any that we have -- has been assigned for their use; an excellent nurse has been employed to take care of them; they have been supplied with the milk of a single cow, selected for the purpose; and during a part of the year their milk has been brought from another farm, reputed to yield unusually good milk; patent foods of various kinds have also been tried, all without any marked difference in the ultimate result. As most of these infants who come to us are mortally diseased at birth, it is hardly to be expected that they will survive their early infancy, though a mother's care would undoubtedly save some.

The Legislature of 1875 appropriated $2,500 for dividing the Asylum into rooms. It has not been thought advisable to change the whole building in this way, but lines of single rooms have been constructed on one side only of the halls, in the first and second stories, leaving the third story unchanged. The same number of insane can be accommodated as heretofore. These rooms are not intended for the constant confinement of patients, but particularly for the isolation at night of those who ought not to sleep in a general dormitory, and also those who in the day-time have temporary maniacal attacks.