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Rh whom 24 were discharged, 4 were transferred to the list of indigent patients, and 41 remained under treatment at the close of the year. 3,348 persons, of whom 1,634 were native-born, have been treated in the hospital since it was opened. The general health of the hospital has been very good.

The expenditures for the past fiscal year amounted to $136,992.45 The amount received for board of private patients was $9,744.86, and that from the sale of live stock, &c., $2,247.51 The products of the farm and garden during the year were estimated as worth $17,763.25, and the value of the live stock, farm and garden implements, &c., belonging to the institution, is estimated at $16,418.20.

In addition to the regular expenditures for the supportof the hospital, there has been expended the sum of $37,800 in the erection of an extension of the wards for the excited class of patients, and $6,000 for heating boilers. There are new owned by the United States and devoted to the objects of the hospital a little upwards of 419 acres of land; 360 acres are embraced in one nearly complete parallelogram, and the remainder comprises a single tract, conveniently situated for grazing, or for the cultivation of the staple annual crops. The tract of 185 acres, originally purchased for the hospital, and within which its buildings are situate, is inclosed by a wall nine feet high, excepting on the river front.

The board of visitors submit the following estimates for the year ending June 30, 1875, viz:

For support of the institution, $140,785; for repairs and improvements, $15,000; for completing the river wall, and raising the boundary walls at their intersection with the former, $8,748; for the erection, furnishing, and fitting-up of an extension of the center building of the hospital, $35,956; for a coal vault in the rear of the east wing, 82,500; for the erection, furnishing, and fitting-up of an extension of the west detached building tor patients, $12,000, and to supply deficiencies for the current year, $11,366; a total of $226,355.

On the 1st instant there were 108 pupils in the Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, 34. of whom were received since July 1, 1872. Of these 60 have been in the collegiate department, representing seventeen States and the District of Columbia, and 48 in the primary department. One hundred and eight pupils have been under instruction since July 1, 1872, of whom 92 were males. Three students, having passed satisfactory examinations in the entire course of studies, received the degree of Bachelor of Arts. The health of the institution was excellent, not one death having occurred during the year.

The receipts for the support of the institution, during the last fiscal year, exceeded the disbursements 882139, as they did also for the improvement of the grounds, $1,626.19.

The board of directors report that, in completing the purchase of the Kendall Green property, toward which Congress, in 1871, appropriated