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REPORT
OF THE
STATE HOSPITAL,
AT
GOLDSBORO, N. C.,
FROM
NOVEMBER 30, 1902, TO NOVEMBER 30, 1904.

RALEIGH:
E. M. UZZELL & CO., STATE PRINTERS AND BINDERS.
1905.

OFFICERS.

• J. F. MILLER, M. D. . . . . Superintendent
• W. W. FAISON, M. D. . . . . First Assistant Physician
• CLARA E. JONES, M. D. . . . . Second Assistant Physician
• B. R. LACY, ESQ. . . . . Treasurer ex officio
• CAPT. DANIEL REID . . . . Steward
• MRS. E. J. SMITH . . . . Matron
• W. J. MATTHEWS, B. E . . . . . Engineer
• MRS. VICTORIA BRYAN . . . . Seamstress
• MR. J. W. BRYAN . . . . Farmer

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

• DR. ELISHA PORTER, PRESIDENT . . . . Pender County
• W. F. ROUNTREE . . . . Craven County
• DR. D. W. BULLOCK . . . . New Hanover County
• DR. JOSEPH E. GRIMSLEY . . . . Greene County
• D. E. MCKINNE . . . . Johnston County
• H. E. DILLON . . . . Lenoir County
• W. R. HOLLOWELL . . . . Wayne County
• W. L. HILL . . . . Pender County
• A. F. JOHNSON . . . . Sampson County

LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL.

GOLDSBORO, N. C., December 8, 1904.

To His Excellency, CHARLES B. AYCOCK, Governor:

        As chairman of the Board of Directors of the State Hospital at Goldsboro, I again respectfully submit our report for your consideration. The report of Dr. J. F. Miller has been carefully considered and approved by your Board of Directors, and it is gratifying to us, and doubtless to yourself and to the public at large, to note his efficient and economic management of this large State charity. I especially call your attention to the fact that a first-class cold-storage and ice factory has been installed the past year without an appropriation by the State, but from money made by the industrial enterprises of the Hospital.

        Your attention is also respectfully invited to the recommendation of the Superintendent for an annual appropriation of $60,000 for maintenance and repairs, and $40,000 as a special appropriation for a building and its furnishings for female patients, for an eighty-horse-power boiler and for an extension of a spur of the North Carolina Railroad from our coal bins to our boiler-house, being a distance of a little less than a half-mile. This Hospital also needs a small appropriation of about $2,500 for a building and its furnishings to care for tuberculous male patients. We sincerely hope your Excellency will approve these several recommendations, and that the approaching Legislature will fully appreciate the necessity for the same.

All of which is most respectfully submitted by
Your obedient servant,

ELISHA PORTER,
Chairman.

SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT.

GOLDSBORO, N. C., December 8,1904.

Gentlemen of the Board of Directors:

        In the providence of God we are permitted to meet here to consider the affairs of this Hospital, and it is my pleasure and also duty to inform you of its present condition and all things appertaining thereto which you as its guardians should know. This report is for the biennial period dating from November 30, 1902, to November 30, 1904, and includes, of course, the report I made to you in December, 1903. At the beginning of this biennial period there were on the rolls of this Hospital 481 patients--198 males and 283 females. During that period we have received 273 patients--113 males and 160 females. Total under treatment, 754. Daily average population, 521 35-100. Discharged during 1903-'04, 225 patients; as recovered, 89; as improved, 9; as unimproved, 1. Died, 120. Remaining December 1, 1904, 529--220 males and 309 females. Percentage of cures on admission, 32 95-100; percentage of deaths on number treated, 9 51-100.

        I regret that the professional work of the past two years in its results has not been altogether so satisfactory as usual, and yet the medical staff of the Hospital has never been more faithful and conscientious in the discharge of duty, and probably never ever so laborious in consequence of increased amount of sickness during a portion of the period embraced by this report, especially during an epidemic of a malignant form of dysentery which swept through our Hospital during the months of April and May, 1903.

        Tuberculosis continues to do its deadly work, and has claimed for its victims about twenty-eight per cent. of those

who have died during the period. I will state for your information that the epidemic of dysentery was confined to our female population, and hence we judged that the cause was inside the building, but we knew not how nor where, unless it was on the walls of the building; so we proceeded to remove all the accumulated whitewash on the walls of rooms and corridors throughout every building occupied by females. This was almost a Herculean task, and the walls afterwards were treated to a coat of whitewash and bichloride of mercury.

        I am glad to state that we have had no epidemic during the past twelve months and, with the exception of tuberculosis, the health of the Hospital has been good. In consequence of the character of our population, we cannot reasonably hope for a favorable comparison with results of hospitals for the white people, yet our mortality is much less than what obtains in most Southern hospitals among a population of like character as ours. Hoffman, who has spent years in laborious research and has written a book on the negro race, presents a wealth of statistics, nowhere else to be found, demonstrating the fact that under every condition the Caucasian is a stronger race than the negro, more resisting to the encroachments of disease and less yielding to its destructive influences; and hence, under like conditions, the mortality everywhere is much greater among the colored than the white population. These tests have been made both in civil and military life, in cities and armies of many countries.

        The Legislature of 1899 appropriated $50,000 for enlargements of this Hospital, but unfortunately the Treasury was so depleted by other demands that the Hospital received but $20,000 of the amount appropriated. The building erected with this money was intended for the accommodation of male patients, but we have been compelled to place female patients on the second floor of this building. Believing that the Legislature of 1901 would make provision for supplying this Hospital with the remaining $30,000 due, we began receiving

every worthy patient who applied for admission, and we soon filled the new building with a hundred and fifty admissions for the year, since which time our wards have been crowded, and a large number of worthy applicants have been refused for want of room.

        An impression has been made on the minds of some people of intelligence that the State of North Carolina is doing more in the way of caring for the negro insane than the whites. This is a great mistake. The negro population, approximately is one-third of the white population, and yet the State has expended for buildings and other equipments for the care of her colored insane but little more than one-sixth as much as for the care of the white insane. If, with this comparatively small appropriation, there is proportionately a larger number of colored insane cared for, it shows on the part of the Board of Directors for the colored a wise and economical business management rather than large appropriations by the State. Our buildings are inexpensive, but neat, substantial and well adapted for the purposes of their construction.

        In this connection I will remark that the State of Virginia has a colored population about the same as North Carolina, and is now caring for more than twice as many as can be cared for in the State Hospital at Goldsboro. In view of the number of applications that have come to this office and that have been rejected the past two years for want of room, I am sure that if we had accommodations we could readily add to our population one hundred patients within the next twelve months. Such provision ought to be made, and I indulge the hope that it will be made by the incoming Legislature.

IMPROVEMENTS AND REPAIRS.

        At our meeting in April, 1903, it was determined to change the closets on that part of the female wards where it was impossible to properly ventilate them, these being three in number--each of the three stories of the building. This

change gives us five additional beds and largely repays the money expended in constructing the closets. For years we have been asking the Legislature for an appropriation to erect separate buildings as a means of dissociating our tubercular cases from other patients. So far as our females are concerned, we have solved this problem for the present at a cost of about $350 by connecting the northwestern end of Vance Hall to the, small brick building, the second story of which has been heretofore occupied as a sleeping apartment for a number of outside employees. The connection is made by means of an iron bridge, which serves also as a solarium for the class of patients who occupy this small building, which is fitted also with closet and bath-room and properly heated. It will accommodate five or six patients, and is a neat, well-ventilated little home for this class of patients. Our carriage and buggy house for years has been a mere makeshift, and it was deemed wise to reconstruct and enlarge so as to make it capable of accommodating all of our vehicles.

        During the past year, by and with the consent of our Executive Committee, a tenement-house was erected and is situated on the public road opposite our Hospital building. You will also observe, doubtless with approving eyes, our reconstructed front steps and walk, a change which has long been needed, and adds much to the appearance of the State's property and also contributes to the comfort of all who visit the Hospital.

        Two of our iron smoke-stacks became disabled during the storm of September, and the third one would doubtless in the near future become disabled by long use, and, realizing the necessity of a more permanent stack, by conferring with the Executive Committee it was determined to be a proper and wise thing to erect a brick stack sufficiently commodious for present and future needs. This improvement cost $1,128. All the common labor was furnished by the Hospital.

        Our kitchen was built when there were less than an hundred patients in the Hospital, and it was a matter of necessity to

enlarge the building, but upon examination the walls were ascertained to be but nine inches thick; so your Executive Committee, with the advice of the architect, deemed it best to remove the building and build de novo using the brick of the old building in reconstructing. You will observe that we have a building 97 feet long, 30 feet wide and three stories high, with stone steps and slate roof. We have also thoroughly equipped the kitchen with what additional furniture was necessary. The first floor of this building is used as a kitchen and also a bakery and a small intervening room for storing wood. The second story is for an associate dining-room, and a room cut off as a store-room for female patients. The third story has a large room which will serve as an assembly-room, and has also a room cut off to be used as a storeroom for males. I hope you will inspect this building very closely, believing you will find it very substantially built and well adapted for its several purposes.

        The State made no special appropriation for any of these improvements, but they represent the economy and good business management of your administration, which should find an expression of appreciation from the tax-payers of the State.

        This completes the short recital of improvements for the past two years with the exception of a thousand and one minor repairs in the engineer's department and by our carpenter.

        At our last December meeting it was my pleasure to inform you that this Hospital had on hand funds sufficient to erect a cold-storage plant, and also machinery to manufacture ice quite sufficient for the use of this Hospital for years to come. According to law, this fund not being contributed by the State, was entirely subject to your commands, and you had a right to use it for whatever purpose your judgment deemed best for the institution. Having failed, after repeated efforts, to secure an appropriation from the Legislature for a cold storage and ice plant for this Hospital, and believing that

future efforts would meet with like failure, and believing further that such a plant was a necessity for an institution like this, you will remember that I recommended and advised your honorable body to use this special fund for the purpose above indicated. This money was the accumulation of the savings of several years in the manufacture of brick and in trucking by our Hospital force, and did not represent the gross but net proceeds of brick-yard and farm, and the amount was $3,511.76. I will state, that the cold-storage plant and ice factory have been duly installed, and works to our satisfaction. We believe it to be first-class in every respect, and cost $3,500. Thus, you will observe that without a special appropriation, nor by savings of money appropriated by the Legislature for any purpose, you have a $3,500 cold storage and ice plant installed in the institution over which you are the Directors.

        For a more detailed statement of the cost of the several improvements the past two years I respectfully refer you to the report of our Steward.

SUBORDINATE OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES.

        In consequence of advancing years and feeble health, our Matron for twenty years or more, Mrs. E. J. A. Smith, retired from the service of this institution, which she had so long and faithfully served.

        Legislative enactments pertaining to the government of hospitals for the insane, at the session of 1899, made the retention of the office of Matron contingent upon the wishes of the Board of Directors, and in pursuance of this law, at our last December meeting it was ordered that the office of Matron be abolished for the time at least and the duties thereof be performed by a housekeeper and storekeeper jointly. Mrs. Victoria Bryan, our former seamstress, was made housekeeper, and she performs all the in-door duties of our former Matron, together with daily visits to the wards, male and

female. Miss Mollie Kennedy, our former chief laundress, was appointed storekeeper, and she performs all the outside duties heretofore performed by the Matron, including daily visits to the dining-rooms of the patients.

        By consent of the Executive Committee, each of these employees receive $17.50 per month. Miss Martha Newell who has long served as assistant seamstress, was made seamstress, at a salary of $15 per month, without board, and our former female supervisor was made her assistant.

        While these changes required one additional employee, there is no additional expense to the Hospital, and the changes result in more efficient and satisfactory service.

        During the past two years, and especially during the past year, have had a great many changes in our Hospital force, and your Superintendent has had some difficulty in securing desirable employees in their stead. The successful management of an hospital for the insane largely depends upon the efficiency of employees who are concerned in their care, and when several such resign in close succession the worry and embarrassment of the Superintendent may be imagined. Such has been the conditions here during the past year. The present demands for labor are so great and wages having advanced, there comes to this office but few applications for ward service, especially from females. In other years my file was kept full of applications, but now there is not one on file from a female. With a knowledge of wages that obtain in nearly all the hospitals of this country, I will state for your information that the wage schedule in this Hospital is the lowest in most respects of any in this country, and I respectfully ask, your careful consideration of this question.

FUTURE NEEDS OF THE HOSPITAL.

        As already intimated, we need a building for the of 140 female patients, which will cost, by a very conservative estimate, $35,000, besides about $3,000 for furniture.

Between thirty and forty females are now accommodated in one of our male buildings, and about twenty are accommodated in a room over our boiler-house. There is on file in this office a large number of applications for admission, but who cannot be admitted for want of room. At least sixty of this number ought to be admitted at once. You will thus see from these statements how imperative and urgent are our needs for more room.

        In view of the above facts, and of the further fact that the Legislature four years ago recognized the necessity of giving this Hospital $30,000 for the erection of a building for the accommodation of female patients, I respectfully submit it is scarcely conceivable that the amount now asked for will be withheld. The plans and drawings for this building have been prepared by our engineer and architect, Mr. W. J. Matthews, and are offered for your examination and, if needs be, correction. We need an eighty-horse-power boiler, which, in position and set for use, will cost about $1,200. I again renew my request for a building with proper equipments for tuberculous male patients, which will cost about $2,500. For many years we have needed a spur from the North Carolina Railroad, opposite this Hospital, to our boiler-house, a distance of half a mile. The ground has been surveyed by a competent civil engineer, and his estimate of cost, exclusive of common labor furnished by the Hospital, will be $3,000. We will need sixty thousand dollars for maintenance and repairs of the Hospital for the year 1905; and if our new building for females is to be erected and prepared for occupancy the present fiscal year, we will need $65,000 for maintenance and repairs for the year 1906.

        I again respectfully submit for your consideration the statement that these estimates are very conservative, and that our requests are most reasonable.

        I again take pleasure in acknowledging the loyalty and intelligent helpfulness of my assistant physicians and all

others who have assisted in the care and management of our humble and unfortunate population, and to commend to you the faithfulness and punctuality of our Executive Committee.

Respectfully submitted,

J. F. MILLER,
Superintendent.

TABLE No. 1.

SHOWING MOVEMENTS OF POPULATION.

        

	Males.	Females.	Total.
Number on roll November 30, 1902	198	283	481
Number admitted	113	160	273
Whole number treated	311	443	754
Number discharged as recovered	46	43	89
Number discharged as much improved		6	6
Number discharged as improved	4	5	9
Number discharged as unimproved		1	1
Number discharged as died	41	79	120
Whole number discharged	91	134	225
Number on roll November 30, 1904	220	309	529
General average			521.25
Percentage of cures			32.95
Percentage of deaths			9.51

TABLE No. 2.

SHOWING CAUSE OF DEATH.

        

	Males.	Females.	Total.
Epilepsy	3	1	4
Paresis	5		5
Tuberculosis	12	22	34
Bright's Disease	2		2
Exhaustion from chronic mania	11	13	24
Exhaustion from acute mania	1	5	6
No diagnosis		2	2
Enterocolytis	1	2	3
Dysentery		10	10
Died suddenly--no cause known	2	1	3
Pyemia	1	2	3
Apoplexy		3	3
Organic heart disease		7	7
Paralysis		1	1
Inanition		3	3
Syphilis of the brain		1	1
Pulmonary hemorrhage	1		1
Heart failure		1	1
Senility	1	1	2
Intersusception of bowel with perforation		1	1
Obstructed bowel	1		1
Abscess of lung with heart complication		1	1
Proctites		1	1
Cardiac asthma with complications		1	1
	41	79	120

TABLE No. 3.

SHOWING CAUSE OF INSANITY AS GIVEN IN APPLICATION.

        

	Males.	Females.	Total
Not stated	52	80	132
Congenital	2	2	4
Menstrual		6	6
Religious excitement	13	5	18
Overstudy	2	1	3
Grief	1	7	8
Abscess of the head	1		1
Injury to head	6		6
Domestic trouble		6	6
Typhoid fever	2	2	4
Epilepsy	7	4	11
Menopause		4	4
Softening of the brain	1		1
Whiskey	7	1	8
Jealousy		2	2
Ill health	2	14	16
Pelvic trouble		6	6
Liver disease		1	1
Puerperal		7	7
Mental anxiety	2		2
Senility	1		1
La grippe	1	1	2
Brain tumor	1		1
Sunstroke	3		3
Heredity	3	2	5
Syphilis		1	1
Septicemia		1	1
Masturbation	1		1
Love affair	1	2	3
Ear trouble		1	1
Financial loss		1	1
Rheumatism		1	1
Overwork	1		1
Fright	1	1	2
Injury to foot	1		1
Ill treatment		1	1
Studying the Bible	1		1
	113	160	273

TABLE No. 4.

SHOWING FORM OF INSANITY ON ADMISSION.

        

	Males.	Females.	Total.
Acute mania	28	27	55
Mania	61	110	171
Chronic mania	1	7	8
Melancholia	4	8	12
Epilepsy	9	3	12
Paresis	1		1
Primary dementia	2	3	5
Senile dementia	6		6
Puerperal mania		2	2
Imbecility	1		1
	113	160	273

TABLE No. 5.

SHOWING DURATION OF INSANITY ON ADMISSION.

        

	Males.	Females.	Total.
Less than one month	40	43	83
From one to three months	19	25	44
From three to six months	12	27	39
From six to twelve months	9	19	28
From one to two years	9	12	21
From two to three years	6	12	18
From three to four years	3	5	8
From four to five years	1	5	6
From five to ten years	6	5	11
More than ten years	3	2	5
Not known	5	5	10
	113	160	270

TABLE No. 6.

SHOWING SOCIAL RELATION.

        

	Males.	Females.	Total.
Single	58	62	120
Married	48	78	126
Widowed	4	18	22
Not stated	3	2	5
	113	160	273

TABLE No. 7.

SHOWING DURATION OF RESIDENCE IN HOSPITAL OF THOSE CURED.

        

	Males.	Females.	Total.
Less than three months		1	1
From three to six months	7	2	9
From six to twelve months	8	12	20
From one to two years	19	21	40
From two to three years	5	3	8
From three to four years	3	1	4
From four to five years	2		2
From five to ten years	2	3	5
	46	43	89

TABLE No. 8.

SHOWING DURATION OF RESIDENCE IN HOSPITAL OF THOSE WHO DIED.

        

	Males.	Females.	Total.
From one to thirty days	2	9	11
From one to three months	4	10	14
From three to six months	8	5	13
From six to nine months	1	7	8
From nine to twelve months	1	5	6
From one to two years	9	8	17
From two to three years	1	7	8
From three to four years	2	3	5
From four to five years		5	5
From five to ten years	9	11	20
From ten to twenty years	4	7	11
From twenty to twenty-five years		2	2
	41	79	120

STEWARD'S REPORT

OF THE FINANCIAL BUSINESS OF THE STATE HOSPITAL AT GOLDSBORO,
N. C., FOR FISCAL YEAR ENDING NOVEMBER 30, 1904.

        

	1903.	1904.
Paid Medical department	$ 866.50	$ 707.52
Provision department	17,021.67	14,705.65
Light department	58.86	76.41
Fuel department	9,725.48	8,403.19
Clothing department	4,204.41	2,858.80
Repairs and engineer department	5,640.17	3,824.71
Farm department	1,093.58	1,714.59
Laundry department	123.32	91.86
Ward department	1,843.87	1,232.56
Dairy department	673.00	987.21
Incidental department	1,515.70	1,178.92
Salaries and wages department	15,166.59	15,376.21
Total ordinary expenses	$57,933.23	$51,557.63
Total improvements, reconstruction, etc.		7,100.06
Total expenses	$57,933.23	$58,657.69

        

STATEMENT OF POPULATION.

	1903.	1904.
Average number patients on roll	507 8-100	535 8-100
Average number patients present	477	511
Per capita cost for fiscal year	121.45½	100.89
Daily per capita cost	33 1-3	27 2-3
Daily number at work	268	276 ¼

        

STATEMENT OF TREASURER'S ACCOUNT.

	1903.	1904.
Dec. 1. Balance on hand	$	$ 66.77
Legislative appropriation	58,000.00	58,000.00
Special appropriation for deficit		591.69
Total available funds	$58,000.00	$58,658.46
Nov. 30. Less vouchers paid	57,933.23	58,657.69
Dec. 1. Balance on hand	$ 66.77	$ .77

        

STATEMENT OF LOCAL CASH.

	1903.	1904.
Dec. 1. To balance on hand	$ 52.33	$ 11.64
Cash received from all sources	796.02	1,103.51
Total available cash	$ 848.35	$ 1,115.15
Less cash disbursements	836.71	1,088.33
Dec. 1. Balance	$ 11.64	$ 26.82

        

STATEMENT OF DAIRY ACCOUNT.

	1903.	1904.
Amount paid for new dairy stock	$ 140.00	$ 816.11
Sales of beef, butter, hides, sundries		643.90
Balance difference	$	$ 172.21
Amount feed account	748.00	987.21
Amount labor and board	280.00	300.00
Total expenses	$ 1,168.06	$ 1,459.42
Less feed on hand and sale of beef	467.03	123.70
Net cost of milk supply	$ 701.03	$ 1,335.72

        Product of milk in 1903, 73,381 pounds; in 1904, 110,493 pounds. Equal to 8,363 gallons in 1903; in 1904, 12,999 gallons. Cost of milk per gallon, in 1903, 8 42-100 cents; in 1904, 10 1-15 cents.

STATEMENT OF COST OF COLD STORAGE.

• For machinery, materials, labor of construction, freight and all other expenses . . . . . $ 3,426.02

STATEMENT OF RECONSTRUCTION OF KITCHEN, DINING-ROOM AND
ASSEMBLY HALL.

• Total cost for material, hired labor and bills of all kinds . . . . . $ 7,868.55

STATEMENT OF COST OF SMOKE-STACK.

• Total cost for construction of a smoke-stack 100 feet high . . . . . $ 1,128.00

STATEMENT OF COST JANITOR'S HOUSE.

• The construction of this house was done by Hospital carpenter and patients at cost for materials . . . . . $ 152.51

        

STATEMENT OF RESERVE FUNDS.

	1903.	1904.
Sale of brick and yard material	$2,062.90	$
Balance of Reserve Funds on hand	84.20	91.83
Balance of Trucking Funds on hand	332.15	66.43
Balance of Cotton Funds on hand	1,032.51
Balance of Greene County account		54.00
For disinfecting corpse		2.90
For sale of cotton seed		123.60
Total amount of all funds	$3,511.76	$ 338.76

        This fund has been consumed in the erection of a cold storage, the reconstruction of kitchen, dining-room and assembly hall, as per report, see page 9.

MEMORANDA OF COTTON RAISED UPON HOSPITAL FARM.

        Bales of cotton, twenty-five on storage; the sale of two horses for five bales of cotton, making total of thirty bales on storage.

Respectfully submitted,

DAN REID.

FARMER'S REPORT FOR 1903.

DR. J. F. MILLER, Superintendent:

        I hereby respectfully submit my report as Farmer for the year 1903.

        

FARM PRODUCTS RAISED.

24,750 pounds oats in straw, at $5	$ 123.75
18,500 pounds clover hay, at $7.50	138.75
51,750 pounds pea-vine hay, at $6.50	336.37
13,700 pounds crab-grass hay, at $6	82.20
825 bushels corn, at 60c	495.00
66,000 pounds corn forage, at $3	198.00
120 tons ensilage, at $3	360.00
4 acres cane (soiling), at $20	80.00
139 bushels wheat, at 85c	118.15
13,000 pounds wheat straw, at $4	52.00
100 bushels peas, at 60c	60.00
2,500 pounds pea hulls, at $2.50	6.25
150 bushels peanuts, at 60c	90.00
7,500 pounds peanut vines, at $5	37.50
75 bushels soja beans at $1	75,00
11,776 pounds lint cotton, at 10 ½c	1,236.48
Cotton seed sold	104.75
200 pounds seed cotton, at 3c	6.00
925 bushels potatoes, at 40c	370.00
725 gallons sorghum syrup, at 25c	181.25
25 bushels sorghum seed, at 50c	12.50
5,500 pounds pork, at 8c	440.00
Total farm products	$4,603.95

        

ORCHARD AND GARDEN PRODUCTS RAISED.

220 bushels apples, at 40c	$ 88.00
400 gallons vinegar, at 25c	100.00
50 gallons cider, at 20c	10.00
85 barrels cabbage, at $1	85.00
1 ½ acre collards	100.00
200 bushels spring onions, at 40c	80.00
75 bushels large onions, at 50c	37.50
63 barrels turnip salad, at $1	63.00
25 barrels spring turnips, at $1	25.00
41 barrels mustard and kale, at $1	41.00
71 bushels garden peas, at 50c	35.50

84 bushels garden peas sold	$ 116.23
224 bushels snap beans, at 50c	112.00
282 bushels snap beans sold	200.91
10 bushels lima beans at 60c	6.00
203 bushels cantaloupes at 75c	152.25
50 bushels cantaloupes sold	50.30
53 bushels strawberries, at $1.25	66.25
2,008 watermelons at 5c	100.40
56 bushels cucumbers at 50c	28.00
53 bushels squash, at 25c	13.25
23 bushels beets, at 50c	11.50
155 bushels tomatoes at 50c	77.50
25 barrels green corn, at $1	25.00
10 barrels green peas, at 75c	7.50
10 bushels radishes, at 50c	5.00
20 bushels okra, at 50c	10.00
5 bushels salsify, at 75c	3.75
400 bushels turnips, at 25c	100.00
700 bushels ruta bagas, at 25c	175.00
246 bushels Irish potatoes, at 50c	123.00
Total orchard and garden products	$2,048.84

        

EXPENSE ACCOUNT.

Salary of Farmer	$ 480.00
Wages and board of four farm hands, at $150	600.00
Fertilizers	471.75
Seed	95.00
Purchase and repair of implements	75.00
Baskets and crates for shipping truck	35.78
Feed for eight head of team	500.00
Total expense account	$2,257.53
Total farm products	$4,603.95
Total orchard and garden products	2,048.84
Total products raised	$6,652.79
Total expense account	2,257.53
Net receipts	$4,395.26

FARMER'S REPORT FOR 1904.

        

FARM PRODUCTS RAISED, AND VALUE.

28,200 pounds sheaf oats, at $6	$ 169.20
1,000 pounds clover hay	7.50
10 acres clover pasture, at $5	50.00
47,000 pounds grass hay, at $5	235.00
60,000 pounds, pea-vine hay, at $6.50	390.00
73,000 pounds soja bean vines, at $2.50	182.50
300 bushels soja beans, at $1	300.00
660 bushels corn, at 70c	462.00
59,400 pounds corn forage, at $3	178.20
90 tons ensilage, at $3	270.00
4 acres cane (soiling), at $20	80.00
170 bushels wheat, at $1.15	195.50
8,750 pounds, wheat straw, at $4	35.00
10 bushels rye, at $1	10.00
1,000 pounds rye straw, at $4	4.00
71 bushels black-eye peas, at $1.25	88.75
30 bushels early peas, at $1	30.00
28 bushels unknown peas, $1	28.00
3,000 pounds pea hulls, at $2.50	7.50
100 bushels peanuts, at 75c	75.00
7,500 pounds peanut vines, at $4	30.00
13,400 pounds lint cotton, at 9c	1,206.00
Cotton seed	130.00
1,050 bushels sweet potatoes, at 40c	420.00
700 gallons sorghum syrup, at 30c	210.00
50 bushels sorghum seed, at 50c	25.00
8,500 pounds pork, at 8c	680.00
Total farm products	$5,499.15

        

ORCHARD AND GARDEN PRODUTCS RAISED, AND VALUE.

213 bushels apples, at 50c	$ 106.50
8,500 heads cabbage, at 2c	170.00
1 ¼ acres collards	125.00
91 barrels turnip salad, at $1	91.00
91 barrels mustard and kale, at $1	91.00
150 bushels spring onions, at 40c	60.00
58 bushels large onions, at 50	29.00
95 bushels garden peas, at 40c	38.00
72 bushels garden peas sold	67.78
168 bushels snap beans, at 50c	84.00

230 bushels snap beans sold	$ 190.80
3 ½ bushels snap bean seed, at $3	10.50
25 bushels lima beans, at 50c	12.50
45 bushels beets, at 50c	22.50
5 bushels radishes, at 50c	2.50
500 heads lettuce, at 2c	10.00
5 bushels salsify, at 50c	2.50
5 bushels egg plant, at 50c	2.50
10 bushels pepper, at 50c	5.00
25 bushels okra at 50c	12.50
75 bushels tomatoes, at 60c	45.00
5 barrels green corn, at $1	5.00
8 barrels green peas, at 75c	6.00
25 barrels fall turnip greens, at 75c	18.75
300 bushels turnips, at 25c	75.00
400 bushels ruta bagas, at 25c	100.00
475 bushels Irish potatoes, at 60c	285.00
27 barrels Irish potatoes sold	63.58
83 bushels cucumbers, at 40c	33.20
120 bushels cantaloupes, at 50c	60.00
1,782 watermelons, at 4c	71.28
100 bushels squash, at 20c	20.00
40 bushels strawberries, at $1.50	60.00
28 crates sold	64.55
600 bunches celery, at 5c	30.00
Total orchard and garden products	$2,070.94

        

EXPENSES OF FARM AND GARDEN.

Salary of Farmer	$ 480.00
Wages and board of three farm hands, at $150	450.00
Fertilizers	610.10
Seed	100.00
Purchase and repair of implements	90.00
Feed for eight head of team	500.00
Baskets, crates and barrels for shipping truck	60.00
Total expenses of farm and garden	$2,290.10
Total orchard and garden products	$2,070.94
Total farm products	5,499.15
Total products raised	$7,570.09
Total expenses of farm and garden	2,290.10
Net value	$5,279.99

INVENTORY OF STOCK, IMPLEMENTS, ETC.

        Three horses, 8 mules, 25 cows, 1 calf, 11 heifers, 1 bull, 1 boar, 9 sows, 36 pigs, 1 carriage, 1 surrey, 2 sets harness, 4 two-horse wagons, 1 single wagon, 4 dump-carts, 1 old cart, 3 sets wagon harness, 1 wagon single harness, 3 sets cart gear, 1 mowing machine, 1 horse rake, 1 grass scythe, 8 stub scythes, 3 grain cradles, 2 reap hooks, 1 ensilage cutter, 1 Ross feed cutter (old), 2 cutaway harrows, 1 drag harrow, 1 Iron Age harrow, 1 Iron Age cultivator, 1 grain planter, 1 cotton planter, 1 fertilizer distributor, 9 turning plows, 7 cotton plows, 4 Cotton King cultivators, 8 sets plow gear, 1 ½ dozen weeding hoes, 10 grubbing hoes, 6 shovels, 3 coal shovels, 1 dozen pitchforks, 9 long-tooth rakes, 3 garden rakes, 1 corn shelter, 1 fanning mill, 8 curry combs, 1 pair sheep shears, 1 cane mill, 1 broadcast seed sower (old), 1 spray pump, 3 axes, 4 butcher knives, 10 buckets.

        I respectfully submit the foregoing report of the work of my department for the year 1904, with an inventory of stock, implements, etc., now on hand.

J. W. BRYAN,
Farmer

SEAMSTRESS' REPORT.

DR. J. F. MILLER, Superintendent.

        DEAR SIR:--Please find in the following a report of the work done in the sewing-room and wards for the fiscal year ending November 30, 1904.

Respectfully submitted,

MARTHA NEWELL,
Seamstress.

SARAH UTLEY,
Assistant Seamstress.

        

GARMENTS MADE.

	1903.	1904.
Aprons	18	84
Awnings, pairs		2
Bonnets	9	2
Blue dresses	36	62
Bed-ticks	190	135
Bolster-cases	6	6
Bodies		175
Chemise	114	504
Combination suits	32	79
Coats	56	100
Capes	20	6
Dresses	350	575
Drawers	400	317
Dish towels		76
Flannel shirts	105	328
Flannel skirts		333
Flannel dresses--lined		6
Gowns	12	30
Jackets	3
Laundry-bag	1
Mangle cover	1	3
Mattress-ticks		6
Milk-cloths		18
Machine covers for Engineer		4
Night-shirts	12
Napkins hemmed	48
Overalls	4	2
Protection-sheet	1
Pants	460	560
Pillow-cases	140	539
Pillow-ticks	24	108

Pillows for coffins	64	49
Quilts made and quilted	20
Sheets	290	860
Sheets for coffins	72	49
Shirts	730	681
Skirts	175	291
Sleeved skirts	6	104
Sleeved drawers	5
Sleeved aprons		4
Sleeves, pairs	20	2
Suspenders	90	119
Shrouds	50	32
Shirt-waists		14
Table-cloths	1	11
Table-napkins		89
Towels	500	514
Total	4,068	6,879

        

GARMENTS MENDED IN THE SEWING-ROOM.

	1903.	1904.
Aprons	40	16
Blankets	10
Bed-ticks	36	50
Combination suits	200	240
Coats	145	184
Drawers	825	1,215
Flour sacks	30
Flannel shirts	200	212
Pants	1,275	1,653
Pillow-cases		42
Shirts	1,450	1,857
Sheets	75	95
Sleeves, pairs	45	26
Table-cloths	4	3
Vests	30	37
Total	4,365	5,630

        

GARMENTS MADE ON WARDS.

	1903.	1904.
Aprons	24
Bodies	115	178
Bonnets	80
Chemise	103	56
Dresses	190	397
Drawers	4

Flannel skirts	204
Skirts	118	446
Sheets hemmed	138	9
Quilts made and quilted	5	39
Window curtains	14	30
Total	995	1,155

        

GARMENTS MENDED ON WARDS.

Bodies	527	499
Bed-ticks	249	82
Chemise	1,410	914
Dresses	1,862	1,056
Flannel skirts	321	343
Flannel shirts	14
Gowns	40
Pillow-cases	290
Sheets	390
Totals	6,279	3,897

        

RECAPITULATION.

Garments made in sewing-room	4,068	6,879
Garments made on wards	995	1,155
Total garments made	5,063	8,034
Garments mended in sewing-room	4,365	5,630
Garments mended on wards	6,279	3,897
Total garments mended	10,644	9,527
Garments made	5,063	8,034
Garments mended	10,644	9,527
Made and mended	15,707	17,561

HOUSEKEEPER'S REPORT.

FOR THE YEAR ENDING NOVEMBER 30, 1904.

DR. J. F. MILLER, Superintendent:

• Butter made from March 1, 1904, to December 1, 1904, 1,474 pounds.
• Money received for butter from April 1, 1904, to December 1, 1904, $242.02.
• Soap made from March 1, 1901, to December 1, 1904, 9,900 pounds.
• Canned apples, 4 gallons.
• Canned Huckleberries, 1 gallon
• Blackberry jam, 35 pounds.
• Apple jelly, 1 ½ gallons.
• Peach preserves, 72 pounds.
• Apple preserves, 15 pounds.
• Pineapple preserves, 8 pounds.
• Pear preserves, 16 pounds.
• Sweet pickled peaches, 1 bushel.
• Sweet pickled tomatoes, 1 peck.
• Sweet pickled pears, 1 peck.
• Pickled cucumbers, 3 pecks.
• Pickled tomatoes, 1 peck.
• Pickled pepper mangoes, 1 peck.
• Pickled cucumbers, in salt, 3 barrels.

Respectfully submitted,

VICTORIA D. BRYAN,
Housekeeper.

        

MONTHLY PAY-ROLL.

J. F. Miller, M. D,. Superintendent	$ 200.00
W. W. Faison, M. D.,* Assistant	91.67
Clara E. Jones.* Second Assistant	75.00
John Bryan, Steward	55.00
V.D. Bryan,* Housekeeper	17.50
Martha Newell, Seamstress	15.00
Sarah Utley, Assistant	10.00
W. J. Mathews, Engineer	60.00
E. F. Wade, Fireman	23.00
Dock Best, Second Fireman	23.00
John C. Brewington, Helper	15.00
Wright Jones, Watchman	20.83
Spencer Best, Carpenter	30.00
W. F. Baker, Janitor	12.00
Jesse Graham, Baker	25.00
Amos Hart, Wagoner	9.00
George Hines[,] Night Watchman	14.00
Neppie Malloy, Night Watchman	10.50
A. B. Howell, Supervisor	15.50
Arnold Vail, Attendant	15.50
Alex Whitfield, Attendant	15.50
J. R. Short, Attendant	15.50
Willie Lee, Farm Attendant	15.50
Thomas Morgan, Farm Attendant	14.00
Charles Hines, Painter	21.67
Williams Hawkins, Attendant	14.00
Oliver Badger, Attendant	14.00
Thomas Rankin, Attendant	14.00
Charles Ricks, Attendant	14.00
Sam Middleton, Attendant	14.00
George Lane, Attendant	13.50
Fred Hines, Attendant	14.50
Owen Highsmith, Attendant	13.00
Walter Evans, Attendant	13.50
Jessie Hooks, Attendant	12.00
Walter Morgan, Male Department Room Superintendent	10.50
Joe Williams, Attendant	10.50
M. E. Kennedy,* Storekeeper	17.50
Priscilla Howell, Supervisor	11.50
Penny Jones, Dining-room Superintendent	7.00

Eliza Clark, Trained Nurse	$ 20.00
Sallie Oliver, Attendant	10.50
Chloe Thompson, Attendant	10.50
Jeannette Newsom, Attendant	10.50
Elsie Badger, Attendant	10.50
Willie Freeman, Attendant	10.50
Anna Richardson, Attendant	10.50
Ella Everette, Attendant	10.50
Nettie Bunn, Attendant	10.50
Laura Middleton, Attendant	10.50
Marguerette Steet, Attendant	10.50
Luetta Atkinson, Attendant	7.50
Cara Newsom, Attendant	7.50
Sara Ham, Attendant	7.50
Mary De Vaughn, Attendant	7.50
Ada Howell, Attendant	7.50
Ellen Whitley, Attendant	7.00
Abbey Flowers, Servant	6.00
Jasper Bunn, Cook	10.00
Frank Moore, Cook	15.00
Maria Hawkins, Cook	6.00
Lillian Blaylock, Laundry Supervisor	10.00
William Hagan, Helper in Laundry	9.00
Eliza Winn, Washerwoman	7.00
Rosa Gaston, Washerwoman	6.00
Dora Atkinson, Washerwoman	6.00
Jennie McDaniels, Washerwoman	7.00
Isham Dunn, Hostler	12.00
John Alston, Dairyman	15.00
Junius Hill, Farm Hand	10.00
Bryan Edgerton, Farm Hand	8.00
Junius Lee, Farm Hand	8.00
Joshua Howell, Lot Hand	10.00
Harriet Finch, Attendant	8.50
Ellie Graham, Shoe-maker	8.00
Daniel Reid, Clerk	25.00
	$1,370.67

        Those marked thus (*) receive board, lodging and washing.