THE DAYTON STATE HOSPITAL. T HE DAYTON DISTRICT comprises ten counties, viz.: Montgomery, Brown, Butler, Darke, Greene, Miami, Preble, Shelby, Warren and Clermont. The Dayton State Hospital was first occupied September, 1855, with a capacity of 162, known as the Southern Ohio Lunatic Asylum. In the year 1875, it was changed to Western Ohio Hospital for the Insane; in 1877, to the Dayton Hospital for the Insane; in 1878, to the Dayton Asylum for the Insane, and in 1894, to the Dayton State Hospital. The hospital is located on a hill southeast of the city of Dayton, adjoining the corporation two miles from the court house. It is on the congregate plan, consisting of the administration building, four stories in height, and the wards on either side three stories in height. The original building contained six wards, three on either side of the administration building, with a capacity of 164. In 1861, the capacity of the Hospital was increased to 600 by the addition of six wards on each side. In 1891 it was again enlarged by the addition of congregate dining rooms, one on each side, which increased the capacity 170, giving us a total capacity at this time of 770. The Hospital at this time has a frontage of 940 feet, and is uniformly three stories in height, except the administration building, which is four stories and surmounted by a cupola. The state property consists of about 300 acres, 40 acres of which are in lawn; also four artificial lakes, which are about four acres in extent. The Hospital is controlled by a board of five trustees, appointed by the Governor, whose tenure of office is five years; the term of one trustee expiring each year. The annual expenditure for the support of the Hospital is about $150,000.00. Two detached cottages of 100 capacity each have this year been erected. A complete new steam and power building is now under construction. Year. LIST OF RESIDENT OFFICERS, WITH TERM OF SERVICE. Superintendent. First Asst. Superintendent] Steward Matron. The Dayton State Hospital. Richard Gundry, M. D. F. W. Andrews, M. D.. 1862-63 Lurton Dunham. 1862-63 I. N. Gard..... Jefferson Patterson. 1864-65 G. W. Rogers.. 1846-65 G. N. Gard... 1866-67 H. Jewett.. 1866-67 G. W. Rogers... 1866-67 L. Dunham.. James Scott.. Montgomery 1874-75 E. B. Harrison... Montgomery 1875-76 A. G. McBurney. Preble Darke. 1875-76 E. B. Harrison.. 1875-76 Thomas Legler. Montgomery 1876-77 A. G. McBurney. 1876-77 W. H. Manning.. 1876-77 N. R. Wyman.. 1876-77 C. M. Godfrey 1876-77 W. J. Conklin. 1877-78 A. G. McBurney. 1877-78 W. H. Manning.. 1877-78 C. M. Godfrey 1877-78 N. R. Wyman.. 1877-78 W. J. Conklin.. 1878-79 Thomas D. Styles.. 1878-79 C. M. Godfrey 1878-79 H. Schoenfeldt.. Job E. Owens. 1862-63 1864 65 H. Jewett... Montgomery Montgomery Preble. Warren. 1846-65 A. Waddle Clark. Darke. Montgomery Montgomery Preble. Warren. Darke. Clark. Montgomery 1878-79 Darke. Montgomery 1880-81 J. D. Kemp. 1880-81 S. A. Baxter. 1882-83 S. A. Baxter. 1882-83 Joseph Clegg. 1882-83 C. M. Godfrey 1882-83 J. D. Kemp. 1882-83 J: M. Millikin. 1884-85 Joseph Clegg. 1884-85 S. A. Baxter. 1884-85 C. M. Godfrey 1884-85 Peter Murphy. 1884-85 J. Linxweiler 1885-86 C. M. Godfrey. 1885-86 S. A. Baxter. 1885-86 Joseph Clegg 1885-86 Peter Murphy. 1885-86 J. Linxweiler.. 1886-87 Peter Murphy. 1886-87 Joseph Clegg. 1886-87 C. M. Godfrey. 1886-87 S. A. Baxter.. 1886-87 J. Linxweiler.. Montgomery 1887-88 S. A. Baxter. Montgomery Darke. Clark. Preble. Warren. Montgomery 1870-71 I. N. Gard.. Darke. 1870-71 A. Waddle Clark. 1870-71 L. Dunham. Preble. Warren. 1870-71 John Davis... 1870-71 G. W. Rogers.. 1871-72 A. G. McBurney 1871-72 John Davis. 1871-72 R. P. Kennedy. 1871-72 G. W. Rogers 1872-73 I. N. Gard.. 1887-88 H. L. Morey.. Montgomery 1887-88 Joseph Clegg.. 1887-88 C. M. Godfrey 1887-88 J. Linxweiler 1889-90 J. Linxweiler.. 1889-90 Joseph Clegg. Logan 1889-90 C. M. Godfrey Montgomery 1889-90 H. L. Morey. Warren. 1889-90 C. D. Wright.. Montgomery 1891.. I. N. Walker.. Henry. Warren. Henry. Putnam Miami THE LONGVIEW STATE HOSPITAL. T HIS Asylum is one of the notable charities of Hamilton county, for which the State of Ohio makes annual appropriations. It is the outgrowth of a combination of circumstances which have determined its peculiar legal status. It has been the subject of more than thirty years of contention, and its history is that of a great political wrong; and an account of its establishment, growth and present condition might not be uninteresting to the general public. The first asylum for the insane erected in Ohio was built in Cincinnati, under an act of the Legislature, passed January 22, 1821, entitled, "an Act establishing a Commercial Hospital and Lunatic Asylum for the state of Ohio." By the terms of this enactment the trustees of Cincinnati township were to furnish a site for said institution, containing not less than four acres of land, within one mile of the public landing on the Ohio river, and erect the necessary buildings (which were to be of brick) for the safe-keeping, comfort and medical treatment of such idiots, lunatics and insane persons of this state as might be brought to it for these purposes. The trustees were to receive certain compensation for the care of such patients, to be paid by the county sending the same, if paupers, or by the friends or guardians, if the patients had estates. In addition, the trustees were required to admit and care for, free of charge, all boatmen belonging to boats owned by citizens of Ohio or to boats of the citizens of other states which provided hospital accommodations to boatmen of this state. They were also required to receive into said institution, and care for, all the paupers of Cincinnati township. The institution was to be known as "The Commercial Hospital and Lunatic Asylum of Ohio." The state donated, for the purpose of assisting in the erection of said asylum, $10,000 in depreciated or uncurrent bank bills then in the state treasury, from which were realized $3,500 in specie. The Commercial Hospital and Lunatic Asylum of Ohio was the parent institution from which afterwards sprung the Orphan Asylum, the City Infirmary, the Cincinnati Hospital and Longview Asylum. It was the beginning, on the part of the state, which has led to the establishment of the great benevolent institutions of which every citizen of Ohio is justly proud. The legislature, on March 7, 1835, authorized the purchase of land for a lunatic asylum, and at the next session authorized the erection of |