| EXPENDITURES | |
| Expended for flour, meal, and crackers | $11,452 69 |
| Expended„ butter and cheese | 7,900 86 |
| Expended„ meats, including hams | 16,766 51 |
| Expended„ poultry and eggs | 718 85 |
| Expended„ fish | 2,044 58 |
| Expended„ groceries and ice | 14,173 56 |
| Expended„ potatoes and vegetables | 2,066 61 |
| Expended„ feed for stock | 3,558 04 |
| Expended„ agricultural implements, seeds, and fertilizers; also fruit-trees,vines, and shrubs | 1,596 49 |
| Expended„ stock | 1,596 93 |
| Expended„ repairs and improvements on buildings, cooking, heating, and lighting apparatus, water-supply, farm and garden lands and roads | 9,292 87 |
| Expended„ repairs to carriage, harness, &c. | 887 95 |
| Expended„ furniture, glass, china,"and hardware | 4,967 57 |
| Expended„ boots, shoes, findings, &c. | 1,552 03 |
| Expended„ bedding | 1,994 90 |
| Expended„ dry goods | 3,744 48 |
| Expended„ books, stationery, and printing | 512,53 |
| Expended„ fuel and lights | 7,867 16 |
| Expended„ money refunded to private patients | 475 29 |
| Expended„ return of eloped patients | 35 00 |
| Expended„ postage | 120 88 |
| Expended„ salaries and wages | 41,658 14 |
| Expended„ medicines, surgical instruments, and liquors | 1,607 61 |
| Expended„ recreations and amusements | 313 25 |
| Expended„ miscellaneous supplies | 87 65 |
| Total | 136,992 43 |
| RECEIPTS. | |
| From the Treasurer of the United States | 125,000 00 |
| From„ private patients, for board | 9,744 86 |
| From„ pigs, hides, rags, &c, sold | 2,247 57 |
| Total | 136,992 43 |
The rate paid for the board of private patients has ranged from $4 to $12 per week, according to the means of individuals and the accommodations required. The average rate paid has not varied materially from that of several recent years, and, so far from contributing anything to the support of the dependent classes, it has been barely sufficient to comply with that clause of the organic act which requires that independent or pay patients shall not be received at " less than the actual cost of their support." The low average rate received for the board and treatment of the private patients admitted to this hospital, is doubtless due in part to the fact that there are but few people of large wealth in the national district from which most patients of this class come, but. there is as little doubt that it is also due in part to a general indisposition among all citizens in all parts of the republic, to pay a Government institution a profit upon any service it renders them. It is the same common sentiment that prevents the hospital from realizing all the income to which it is entitled by that provision of law which requires those patients admitted by order of the Hon. Secretary of the Interior to pay such a portion of the expenses of their board and treatment as they are able.
In addition to the disbursements for the support of the hospital, an appropriation of $37,800 was expended in the erection of an extension of the wards for the excited classes of patients, and $6,000 for heating
