Of the paying patients, 120 became paupers and so continued, adding together the respective periods of all, for 582 weeks and 3 days. The average proportion of patients cured, is stated in the report at 69 per centum, omitting a small fraction; the proportion of the relieved, 6 per cent; discharged by request, 9 per cent; discharged as disorderly, or eloped, 5 per cent; as improper subjects, 2 per cent; deaths, 7 per cent. The deaths included 25 casualties and other causes of sudden death requiring notice from the coroner, and, in many cases, ending fatally in a few hours after admission into the Hospital. The average time of patients under treatment, is stated at 5 weeks 4 days and 4 hours. The average number of patients during the year is put at 228; average cost per week, at $2.69, and per day, at 38 cents. Classing the whole number of patients in 1844, according to nativity, it appears that of the whole 2,419, there were born in the United States 854; in British America 39; in the West Indies 35; in England 159; in Scotland 69; in Wales 12; in Ireland 953; in Germany 110; in Denmark 23; in France 21; in Italy 20; in Portugal 16, and in various other countries other smaller numbers in each. During the 15 years ending Dec. 31, 1844, and including the number of 191 patients remaining in the hospital on the 31st of Dec. 1829, the whole number admitted into this establishment was 28,144, of whom 20,712 were discharged cured. The whole number received, from its first opening up to the end of 1844, was 70,384. The total RECEIPTS for 1844, were $36,865.34, made up of the following items. State annuity $12,500; Seamen's board, $16,337.31; board of pay patients $6,741.92; articles sold $260.78; tickets to library, &c., sold to students $1,025.33. Total EXPENDITURES for 1844, were $42,663.40, the principal items of which were as follow: House expenses, including provisions, fuel, &c., $15,472.03; wages $9,057.58; repairs and improvements $2 728.46; medicines, surgery, including surgical instruments, &c., $4,466; interest on bond $2,925; cost of introducing Croton water, with the necessary fixtures, &c, $5,794.60, besides several other items, making, in all, an excess of $5,798.06 of expenditures over receipts. The above excess, however, consists of the item for the introduction of Croton water, and boilers, baths, and other fixtures, necessary for the various uses to be made of it. The Hospital Debt amounted on the 1st January, 1845, to $47,508.16. To meet the chief item of this debt, say $45,000-there was at the end of 1844, in the Hospital Sinking Fund, the sum of $16,319.72, arising from the surplus of income over ordinary expenses. BLOOMINGDALE LUNATIC ASYLUM. (Connected with the New-York Hospital.) The Bloomingdale Asylum for the Insane is pleasantly situated near the banks of the Hudson River, distant seven miles from the city of New-York, and has attached to it forty acres of land, laid out in gardens, pleasure grounds, gravel walks and farm lots, well adapted to the unfortunate inmates. The building is erected on one of the most elevated and healthy sites on the Island, and sufficiently retired for the comfort and convenience of the patients. These are under the immediate superintendence of a skilful physician, who has devoted a number of years to that particular branch of medical science. and has visited the various lunatic establishments in England, France and Italy; examining the condition of the patients, and enquiring minutely into the mode of treatment pursued therein. The ordinary affairs of the house are managed by a warden and matron, and a sufficient number of kind and careful nurses are always ready to attend to the wants and comforts of the patients. The whole establishment is under the general direction of a committee taken from and appointed by the Board of Governors of the New-York Hospital. BLOOMINGDALE ASYLUM COMMITTEE. Benj. L. Swan, 29 La Fayette Place. Aug. Fleming, 71 Leonard-street. Pliny Earle, M. D., Physician. Applications for admission, if made by letter, addressed to the Physician; if personal, to one of the Asylum Committee. Cases are termed recent when less than a year old, and chronic when of longer standing. The above table shows that the total admissions and discharges, for the whole year, were nearly equal: the average number in the asylum during the 12 months being about 104 of both sexes; the average of males, 56.5, and of females, 47.5. Though the customary distinction between recent and chronic lunacy, is adhered to, in the report, yet the Physician avows little faith in its validity, or value, on account of the extreme difficulty of ascertaining, with any reliable precision, the time when disease actually commences. He, however, considers the estimate as fully warranted by experience, that in cases of really recent insanity, 80 in every 100 are cured by the present enlightened modes of treatment, but that after the first three months the probability of cure rapidly diminishes. The average age of the patients in the asylum at the commencement of 1844, is greater than that of the patients received during that year. Of the former there were 27 between 30 and 40 years, and of the latter 33 between 20 and 30 years. A much larger proportion, also, of the former, than of the latter, were never married. Of the whole 206 patients, of both classes, in the asylum during 1844, the males never married were 64, the females 43; the married, males 37, females 41; the widowed, males 9, females 12. The largest number of patients were, by occupation, farmers, but compared with the whole farming population, their numerical proportion is believed the smallest. NEW-YORK EYE INFIRMARY. (47 Howard-street, near Broadway.) Founded, August 1820. During the year 1844 were received 1,305 new patients at the Infirmary, laboring under various diseases of the Eye and Ear. Of this number 1016 were cured; 50 relieved; 26 declined treatment; 12 were discharged as incurable; the result of 16 not ascertained, and 43 remain under treatment. HUDSON LUNATIC ASYLUM. This asylum was established in 1830, by the late Dr. Samuel White, of the city of Hudson. It is a spacious stone structure, pleasantly situated on one of the back streets of the city, which is distinguished for salubrity; and the physical circumstances of position, air, water, prospect and general tranquility, are all favorable to the object of such an institution. This asylum is a private institution, and the patients are under the immediate charge of the proprietor, a physician of established reputation and experience. His testimony concurs with that of all others, who have had the management of the insane, on the modern system of moral treatment combined with regimen, air, exercise, and medicines when the bodily system requires them, namely, that cases of recent insanity can almost always be cured, but that they sooner become chronic and inveterate than mere bodily disease. THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTIONS. HAMILTON LITERARY AND THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTION. Chartered in 1819, and situated in the village of Hamilton, in Madison county. The general control is vested in a Board of thirty Trustees, as follows: Henry Tower, Hamilton, Vice-Prests. Friend Humphrey, Albany, Waterville, Nathaniel Kendrick, Corresponding Secretary, Hamilton, Alvan Pierce, Treasurer, Edward Bright, Jr., Homer, James Cauldwell, Whitesboro', 66 Abraham Spear, Macedon, Chas. W. Houghton, New-York, David McWhorter, Pitcher, J. Edmunds, Jr., Hamilton, A. Simons, Registrar and Steward. The immediate government and instruction of the pupils are vested in a faculty as follows: FACULTY. Rev. Nathaniel Kendrick, D. D., Prof. of Systematic and Pastoral Theology. Rev. John S. Maginnis, Professor of Biblical Theology. Rev. Thomas J. Conant, Prof. of Hebrew, and of Biblical Criticism and Interpretation. Rev. George W. Eaton, Professor of Civil and Ecclesiastical History. There are three departments at this institution, viz: the Academic, the Collegiate, and the Theological. The Academic department embraces a course of study strictly classical, extending through two years, and requiring, as preparatory to admission, that the most thorough course of English studies ever pursued in our best common schools should have been completed. The Collegiate department embraces much the same course as other colleges in our country, though rather more extensive than some of them, if we may judge from the syllabus. The Theological department embraces two distinct courses of study, one designated the " Shorter Course," adapted to students somewhat advanced in life as well as attainments; and the other a very full circle of studies; comprehending every branch of learning deemed essential to make an accomplished teacher of the Christian doctrine and practice, church discipline and pastoral duty. Though this institution is placed under the particular patronage and control of the Baptists, yet it is open, like most other seats of learning among us, to students having the Christian ministry in view, of all denominations. One of the peculiarities of this institution, and a very commendable one, is a regular and systematic instruction in sacred music. The annual commencement is held on the 3d Wednesday in August. The total annual expense, including all charges necessary to be paid to the institution, is, in the Academic department $74; in the Collegiate department $84; and in the Theological department $54. Connected with the institution is a farm of 130 acres, and a joiners' shop. ONEIDA CONFERENCE SEMINARY. Founded by the Methodists, and situated in the village of Cazenovia, Madison county. The Faculty having the immediate government and instruction of the students, are as follow: Rev. Henry Bannister, A. M., Principal and Teacher of Hebrew. P. B. Wilder, Professor of Natural Science. O. Blanchard, Teacher of Mathematics. H. M. Johnson, Preceptor of the English Department. Miss Elizabeth A. Taylor, Preceptress. Miss M. M. Baber, Teacher of Music. GENESEE WESLEYAN SEMINARY. Lima, Livingston County. Rev. Mr. Loomis, A. M., Principal. AUBURN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY. Incorporated in 1820, having been organized in 1819, by the Presbyte rians; and went into operation in 1821. Situated in the village of Auburn, Cayuga county. The general control of the institution is vested in a "Board of Commissioners," chosen annually by the several Presbyteries in the bounds of the synods of Utica, Geneva and Genesee, and such other Presbyteries in the state of New-York as may associate with them. The immediate care of the funds and all internal affairs, is committed to a "Board of Trustees," 15 in number, elected by the "Board of Commissioners," for three years, one third going out every year. The Trustees have a Treasurer, who is also Clerk; and an Auditor. The duties of instruction are entrusted to the following |