Excerpt from Sixth Annual Report of the Directors and Superintendent of the West Virginia Hospital for the Insane: For the Year 1869Remaining in Hospital Oct. 1, 1869 Average number during the year, The increase from the number in the Hospital at the date of the last report was immediate and steady until the number reached the maxi mum that it is possible for us to have in the institution at any one time until it is enlarged. That number is about two hundred. It is practica ble to vary the figures by a few, it is true. The highest yet reached by severe crowding - being two hundred and six. The number has never been less than two hundred since first reaching that figure, and it has been our effort to keep the number as nearly as possible in that vicinity.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.