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physicians and attendants at the Rhode Island Hospital for the Insane compared with the number employed at similar hospitals in other States, adding, however, that no increase of the staff can be made at present because there are no accommodations for this purpose.

He also suggests that the old buildings on the Silva purchase, now part of the Hospital farm, be improved and enlarged so as to furnish greater facilities for keeping live-stock and also provide accommodations for a farm-colony of forty or fifty chronic patients, to be under the immediate care of the farmer and his family. The colony method of caring for certain classes of the insane was favorably spoken of by Dr. Keene in the report of 1904.

The statistics for the State Hospital for the Insane for 1906 are as follows:

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One inmate, who was not committed, died, making the total number of deaths 164.

The average numbers taken from the monthly reports up to 1885, and since then from the daily record, have been as

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Crops raised on the farm of the State Hospital for the Insane

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161⁄2 bush.

Corn, green...

Beans, shell.

18551 ears.

Beef

4586 lbs.

Beets, table.

469 bush.

Beets, mangle

wurtzel................ 30

tons.

Corn, yellow.
Corn, pop......
Corn, fodder.
Cress

256 bush.

52 bush.

1431⁄2 tons. 22 bun,

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