Excerpt from Twelfth Annual Report of the Trustees of the State Lunatic Hospital at Worcester: December, 1844 The resources for the. Payment of ordinary expenses are the board of patients, the produce of the farm, and the proceeds of our mechan ical operations. The current expenses for ordinary purposes, the past year, and the receipts for the payment thereof, can be better under stood in the treasurer's-report. Much good might result if the Trustees had authority to appropriate, from their funds for current expenses, when they may find it expedient, a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars in any one year, for the pur chase of land, or for the erection, enlargement or permanent improve ment of their fences and buildings. There is now a piece of productive land, about five acres, situated between the farm of the Hospital and the public highway, that has been recently sold for about five hundred dollars, and was purchased and is now held by a friend, and offered to our institution at the cost. We think it worth much more to the Hospital than to any other concern. Every year, as the number of our patients increases, we increase the productiveness of our land, the number of cattle upon our'farm, and consume a greater amount of pr'oduce in our numerous family. 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.