Download or read book Forty-Fourth Annual Report of the Trustees of the State Lunatic Hospital at Worcester written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Forty-Fourth Annual Report of the Trustees of the State Lunatic Hospital at Worcester: October, 1876 To His Excellency the Governor and the Honorable Council. The reports of the Superintendent and Treasurer, herewith submitted, set forth with clearness and precision the operations of the Hospital during the past year, and its present condition. Generally speaking, it may be said that those operations have been conducted with fidelity and economy. The official staff of the institution have, and, it is believed, deserve, the confidence of this Board. The finances have been managed with exactness, and upon a system which experience has demonstrated to be sound. No bill exceeding in amount the sum of twenty dollars can be paid by the Treasurer without the previous approval of one of the members of this Board, acting as auditor; aud every bill of however small amount must be audited before being allowed to the Treasurer in his account. The reserved or surplus fund in the hands of this officer has increased somewhat during the past year; the prospect of removal to the New Hospital within a year rendering it, in the judgment of the Trustees, advisable to limit somewhat the amount expended in repairs on the old. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.