is consistent with their condition. During the year, Ward Twelve was opened, and the patients thus permitted to go about the premises unattended. We are promoting the policy of privileging the women patients in parties of two or more and in this manner permitting them to walk about the grounds unattended by a nurse. Nature has blessed us with picturesque and beautiful grounds and these privileges add greatly to the comfort and happiness of the patients and tend to restore self-confidence and mental equilibrium. The volume of work accomplished in the hydrotherapy parlors is herewith tabulated: Mrs. Alice Hughes, who had been at the head of the training school for nurses during last year's training, resigned in June to take up private nursing. In September, Mrs. Byrda V. McConihay was appointed superintendent of nurses. She is a graduate nurse of a general hospital and has taken hold of the work with zeal and enthusiasm. On the evening of May 22, commencement exercises were held for the class 1914. Dr. H. R. Wilson, of the Ohio University, delivered a very able and interesting address. Hon. J. P. Shaffer, president of your board, with a few well chosen and appropriate remarks, presented the graduates-eleven women-with their diplomas. Nine juniors successfully passed their examinations and were promoted to the senior class. The special course for male attendants was completed by eight men. Athens IMPROVEMENTS. The dairy has been increased to approximately one hundred cows. We have been keeping all the thoroughbred Holstein heifer calves, consequently, we were compelled to erect another dairy barn to accommodate the growing herd. This barn, which is 36 x 144 ft., has been completed recently, and is being used very largely to accommodate the young stock and maternity cows. A refrigerating plant is now under construction and will soon be completed. An apartment for making butter has been provided and all the necessary butter-making machinery has been purchased and partially installed. We hope in time to be able to make all the butter used by the household, and when completed we will have a well-equipped and modern cold storage in every respect. Both these improvements have been made, in the main, by the hospital force under the supervision of representatives from your board with very satisfactory results. For a report of the production of the farm and garden and industrial departments for the year, would respectfully refer you to our quarterly report filed with your fiscal supervisor. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. We are very much indebted to Messrs. Fred Lee, Tom and Alexander Kerr for the great interest they have taken in directing the choir, and upon whose solicitation many of the good people in Athens and Ohio University have furnished solos for chapel exercises, so highly enjoyed by those in attendance, and for which we feel most thankful. A great many of the citizens of Athens have furnished the patients with magazines and periodicals for which we feel very grateful. We have been treated very kindly by the Athens press, and are very thankful for receiving daily copies of the Athens Messenger. We wish to thank the Marietta Register, Adams County Record, Logan Republican, Gallipolis Bulletin, Portsmouth Times and all others for donating copies of their papers, which have been distributed, so far as possible, among the patients representing the respective counties in which the papers are published. In closing this report, I am sensible of my indebtedness to the officers and employes of the hospital, for their earnest and devoted service, and I hereby express my sincere gratitude for their faithfulness, and finally, to you gentlemen of the Board of Administration, your constant aid and guidance and ever-willing support is hereby gratefully acknowledged. Respectfully submitted, O. O. FORDYCE, Superintendent. Athens, Ohio, November 15, 1914. TABLE 3. Athens Showing Forms of Mental Diseases in Patients Admitted During the Year Ending November 15, 1914. TABLE 4. Showing Duration of Insanity in Those Admitted, Recovered and Died During the Year Ending November 15, 1914. Died TABLE 5. Showing Ages of Admitted, Recovered and Died During the Year Ending November 15, 1914. Showing Duration of Treatment in Institution of Patients Recovered, Improved, Unimproved and Died During the Year Ending November 15, 1914. |