for the purpose, also that the trustees shall fix the charge to be paid by such private patient.

Report has been filed in this Department of the amounts charged to the various towns, cities and counties for the care, treatment and maintenance of free patients for the period from July, 1904, to December 31, 1905, which shows a total of $24,905.24, of which $6,571.22 had been collected, and the records show that there has been collected for the same period for private patients the sum of $7,706.49, thus making the possible aggregate receipts for the period stated, $32,601.73. The collection on account of the care, treatment and maintenance of free patients is made by the comptroller, and that for private patients directly by the superintendent of the hospital. In both cases the money is turned into the State treasury.

From this statement it will be seen that the expense to the State for the maintenance of this hospital is reduced to a mini

mum.

The following bills of fare for the closing week of the fiscal year, submitted by the superintendent at the request of this De partment, give a fair idea of the range of diet at this institution:

Sunday:

Breakfast-Apples, cornmeal mush, scrambled eggs, hashed brown potatoes, crullers.

Dinner Consomme Julienne, chicken fricasee, mashed potatoes, string beans, stewed corn, sliced cucumbers, vanilla ice cream, lady fingers.

Supper Celery salad with mayonnaise dressing, cold meat, German fried potatoes, sweet rolls, pineapple.

Monday:

Breakfast Oatmeal, pork chops, creamed potatoes, corn muf

fins.

Dinner--Chicken a la Portugaise, roast beef, mashed potatoes, peas, carrots, tapioca pudding.

Supper-Ragout of lamb, brown potatoes, rolls, lunch cakes, apple sauce.

Tuesday:

Breakfast-Hominy, lamb chops, saute potato, biscuits.

Dinner-Puree of split peas, corned beef and cabbage, boiled potatoes, succotash, sliced tomatoes, chocolate cream pie. Supper Cold meat, potato salad, rolls, vanilla jumbles, fresh peaches.

Wednesday:

Breakfast-Cornmeal mush, creamed codfish, fried potatoes,

corn bread.

Dinner-Mutton broth, roast lamb, mashed potatoes, buttered beets, green peas, rice pudding.

Supper-Corned beef, browned hash, potatoes, rolls, spice cakes,

grapes.

Thursday:

Breakfast-Apples, oatmeal, beefsteak, stewed potatoes, bis

cuits.

Dinner Potage mangole, roast veal, mashed potatoes, corn on cob, mashed turnips, lemon pie.

Supper-Beef stew with vegetables, baked potatoes, rolls, drop cakes, stewed prunes.

Friday:

Breakfast Hominy, boiled eggs, hashed brown potatoes, corn muffins.