Excerpt from Third Annual Report of the Directors and Superintendent of the West Virginia Hospital for the Insane: For the Year 1866Sir: The Directors of the West Virginia. Hospital for the Insane report to you their Official doings for the fiscal year 1866.The finished portion of the Hospital has been filled with patients during the year, and large numbers have been necessarily denied admission, as will be more fully seen in the report of the Medical Superintendent. That more than eighty applications should be pending in addition to those received, and those at Staunton and Williamsburg, will no doubt create surprise, yet such is the fact, and the number is constantly increasing. The speedy completion of the entire building is therefore an actual necessity.It is a very disagreeable duty that the officers often have to per form, to deny admission to recent and pressing cases, that by prompt admission might perhaps be soon restored to their friends, but without more room, or distinct authority to remove old incurable cases, the duty has been imperative.In this connection, your attention is called to that portion of the Superintendent's report touching this subject.In about ten days after the adjournment of the last Legislature, the Board of Directors was convened at the Hospital, and adopted measures for an energetic effort to place so much of the Hospital in condition for receiving patients as the appropriation of seventy five thousand dollars would allow. It was then resolved first to finish the first section adjoining that already occupied, and when that should be completed, to apply the remainder of the appropri ation to the next adjoining section.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.