The percentage of recoveries based on admissions for the period was about 43.4 per cent, and about 7.5 per cent of deaths on the total number treated.

The total number remaining in the asylum May 31, 1901, was 97, of which 58 were males and 39 were females. Of this number about 30 per cent may be classed as incurable.

Since the last annual report many changes and improvements have been made by which the sanitary conditions of the institution have grown much better. thereby enabling us to care for and treat the unfortunate patients more satisfactorily. Kitchen.-A new kitchen, built of brick, 38 by 44 feet, including a pastry room and bake oven, was completed in August, 1900. New furnishings were provided, so that the culinary department is now first class, and we may hereafter have much better prepared food than ever before. Besides the large general kitchen a small diet kitchen has been placed in the female department, where special food may be more easily prepared for patients with acute ailments.

Administration building.—The old building, known as the administration building, has been extensively repaired during the summer of 1900, making a great change for the better, compared with the almost uninhabitable condition of this part of the institution, as described in our last report of May, 1900. All the woodwork, except the floors, has been repaired and painted. The damaged walls and ceilings have been replastered and calcimined. The old plumbing has been removed and the bath and toilet rooms changed and new sanitary plumbing put in. Large and commodious linen closets have been added to both the male and female departments.

The drug room has been removed from the north to the south side of the entrance hall, and an adjoining room has been fitted up as an office for the medical superintendent. The room formerly used as a drug room has been renovated and fitted up as an office for our steward.

A small supply of clinical and surgical instruments, which were greatly needed, has been bought, and they have added much to the hospital service.

More land.-Acting upon the recommendations made in the last two biennial reports, about 80 acres of land were secured during the month of May this year. This property is under irrigation and is now being prepared to produce vegetables and other crops which may be used advantageously in this institution.

New building.-During the thirty-fourth session of our legislative assembly a provision was made for issuing bonds for the purpose of constructing an additional hospital building, but the proceeds from the sale of these bonds will not be available before the year 1902.

SUGGESTIONS.

Laundry.-This institution should be provided with a new and modern laundry. The present arrangements are very inadequate, whereby all the washing and ironing is done by hand. We have outgrown the present method of handling the soiled clothes and linen. It is earnestly urged that ample provisions be made to erect a new building and equip it with the necessary machinery to meet this pressing need. Power house.-The engine room is entirely too small and should be enlarged. The boilers, engines, pumps, and fans are so crowded that it is impossible for the engineer and his help to freely go through all parts of the engine room while the machinery is in motion. The condition of this department is a constant source of danger to those employed herein, and it is highly important that these defects should be corrected as early as possible.

Operating room.-The need of a suitable room and equipment, in order that we may properly care for surgical cases, has made itself felt during the last two years. A number of operations have been successfully performed during the period under many disadvantages. The demands in this direction may be met by a very moderate outlay of money.

Orchard. We now have a few fruit trees which are making a very satisfactory growth, but the number is quite insufficient. We should procure not less than 500 or 600 well selected trees and plant them out next spring.

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In closing this report your superintendent takes great pleasure in acknowledging his indebtedness for the hearty cooperation extended by you as individuals, as well as a board of directors.

Very respectfully,

W. R. TIPTON, Medical Superintendent. The BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE NEW MEXICO ASYLUM FOR THE INSANE.

BOARD OF PHARMACY.

SILVER CITY, N. MEX., August 31, 1901.

SIR: I have the honor to submit herewith the twelfth annual report of the New Mexico board of pharmacy, covering the period from December 1, 1900, to August 31, 1901.

Since the last report the board has held one meeting, this at Santa Fe, on March 4 and 5, 1901, all members being present except Hon. E. G. Murphey. No candidates appeared, and only routine business was transacted. The conditions of pharmacy are fairly satisfactory, and the few infractions of the law have been apparently satisfactorily adjusted.

Most of the complaints of violations of the law come through the secretary, and are by him referred to the committee on complaints and grievances, of which Hon. B. Ruppe is chairman. One complaint which appeared to disclose an irregular state of affairs at Carlsbad. came to the secretary on April 19, was immediately referred to Mr. Ruppe, chairman of committee on complaints and grievances, who immediately drew from our treasury sufficient funds upon which to make the trip for the purpose of investigation. After a tour of nearly a week and an expenditure of $145.10, his report shows that no open violation of the pharmacy law existed, and that the complaint was based upon a slight infraction of the board-of-health law and was entirely outside of the jurisdiction of the pharmacy

board.

Another complaint which appears to have gone through your hands from Dr. E. C. Condit, Aztec, against Dr. F. R. Waggoner, Aztec, is being investigated, and we trust may soon be amicably adjusted.

Appended hereto is a list of the registered pharmacists and the minor pharmacists on our register at this date; also financial statement of secretary and treasurer.

Registered pharmacists in New Mexico on September 1, 1901.

Registered pharmacists in New Mexico on September 1, 1901—Continued.

Mar. 7. A. J. Fischer, per diem and postage

Mar. 7. W. C. Porterfield, per diem, mileage, and postage
Mar. 7. P. Moreno, mileage, per diem, and postage.

Apr. 23. B. Ruppe, chairman committee on complaints and griev

BOARD OF DENTAL EXAMINERS.

SANTA FE, N. MEX., August 30, 1901. SIR: In accordance with chapter 60, section 10, general laws of New Mexico for 1893, we have the honor to submit the eighth annual report of the New Mexico board of dental examiners.

The annual meeting of the board was held in the office of the secretary at Santa Fe on October 22, 1900. There were present L. H. Chamberlin, B. M. Williams. D. W. Manley; absent, W. H. White and A. A. Bearup. The annual meeting occurring so soon after the special meeting, an account of which was included in our last report, left little business to be transacted. There were 11 applicants for registration, all graduates of recognized reputable colleges. Of these, 10 were granted certificates to practice, and 1 was refused registration, being found guilty of unprofessional conduct while practicing under a temporary certificate. No violation of the law was reported during the year.

SIR: The New Mexico board of health has the honor to submit the following report:

The general healthfulness of the Territory and climatic conditions have been such for the last year that there has been an entire absence of epidemics. The board has distributed, in Spanish and English, 2,000 copies of typhoid literature. and is happy to report that the dread disease, smallpox, at the present time is wholly unknown in the Territory. The pamphlet treated of sanitary precautions and safeguards to be taken to prevent the disease, and also, if cases had occurred, what sanitary precautions should be taken to prevent its spread.

The board of health distributed 2,000 copies of smallpox pamphlets, as to diagnosis, treatment, isolation and quarantine, and recommending vaccination, with results that intelligent people in isolated hamlets were able to handle cases properly.

Consumption.-The fresh-air treatment of consumption in such resorts as Ragaz, Davos, and Saranac have proven to be a success. The Lancet (London) recommends the keeping of tubercular patients out of doors for the entire twenty-four hours. No more suitable place as to climatic conditions, altitude. sunshine, or perfect drainage can be found on the American continent than New Mexico to-day. As this Territory is fast becoming famous for its climate and many tubercular cases are coming here, the board has issued a circular on "Expectoration" to hotel and boarding-house keepers, to post in conspicuous places, and would recommend the following should be carried out in hotels, boarding houses, and other places of public entertainment:

It is the safer way to subject to a careful cleansing and disinfection all rooms that have been occupied by consumptives. Particularly in rooms where strict sanitary rules have been observed, the need of disinfection is emphasized by the fact that the germ of tuberculosis retains its infective powers a long while under favoring conditions.

The bacillus of tuberculosis is hard to kill; use, therefore, only those disinfectants which are the most rapidly destructive of it when in its dry state. In fresh

sputum the bacillus requires different treatment. In disinfecting a room that has previously been occupied by a consumptive, let the order of procedure be about as is recommended in the following, sorting out and disinfecting the clothing and other smaller things first:

(A) Clothing.-Disinfect with steam or by boiling. Boiling for half an hour will disinfect any article that can be subjected to that process. Steam disin ection for one hour, properly done, is just as trustworthy and has the advantage of wetting and shrinking fabrics less. Steam disinfection on a small scale can be done in the common wash boiler by supporting above the water, with two bricks or otherwise, a false flooring of laths or thin board. Pour in 2 or 3 inches of water, place the articles to be disinfected above the false flooring, put on the cover, and steam one hour after the water begins to boil, keeping the water briskly boiling all the time. To insure certainty of success there must be a brisk fire and the steam must be kept steaming through the articles all the time. After the steaming, carry the boiler into the open air and throw the things over a line to dry. In every town and city a portable steam disinfector should be available. Clothing can also be disinfected by soaking it twenty-four hours in solution 6 or 7. Then rinse thoroughly.

(B) Bedding. Disinfect sheets, blankets, pillowcases. quilts, comforts, and spreads, as under (A). Pillows and feather beds are preferably disinfected with steam. They need not be ripped the steam will penetrate. Empty straw beds, burn straw, and disinfect tick with steam as under (A). Burn cheap mattresses. A mattress worth the trouble may be disinfected with formaldehyde as follows: Make a tight box large enough to contain it; render it air-tight by pasting up all cracks and corners with stout, firm paper. Place the mattress in it and sprinkle or spray it with at least 4 ounces (1 gill) of formalin; put on the cover quickly; paste it up; leave the mattress twenty-four hours. Or a mattress may be disinfected by spraying it with formalin and quickly and tightly wrapping it in large rubber blankets. Feather beds and pillows may be disinfected with formalin as is advised for mattresses.

(C) Rugs and carpets.-Burn old ones and all that can not be surely disinfected. Steam disinfection is the surest. When that is impracticable formaldehyde in concentrated doses, as for mattresses, may be used for valuable carpets or rugs.

(D) Upholstered furniture.-If the room can be disinfected with formaldehyde, spray or sprinkle the upholstered part with solution 7. just before the room disinfection, and leave in place. If formaldehyde gas is not available, spray or wash thoroughly with solution 7 or 6, then expose to the action of direct sunshine three or four days-the longer the better.

(E) Rooms.-Avoid raising a dust. If the removal of a carpet leaves dust on the floor, remove it after sprinkling wet sawdust or with damp broom or damp cloths. With a damp cloth remove dust from furniture and other surfaces. Boil all cloths thus used. If formaldehyde disinfection is available for the room, wash in solution 7 all surfaces of walls or furniture that may have been soiled with sputum. Wash or spray the floor with solution 7, letting the solution soak into the cracks well. Then fumigate with formaldehyde, letting the stripped furniture remain. If formaldehyde is not available, wash very carefully in solution 6 or 7 floors and all surfaces where exposed to the danger of soiling with sputum. Complete the disinfection of the room with liquid disinfectants, repeating the washing, the interval between the two washings not necessarily exceeding half an hour. For the disinfection of rooms with formaldehyde, the new vaporizer devised by Professor Robinson, in which formaldehyde solution is used, is recommended by the State board as a simple. compact, and efficient piece of apparatus. It vaporizes solution of formaldehyde instead of wood alcohol. At least half a pint of formaldehyde solution should be used for each 1,000 cubic feet of space. Keep the room closed at least eight hours. In preparing for formaldehyde disinfection, the room must be made as tight as possible by closing the mouths of chimneys, other ventilating openings, chinking or pasting cracks, etc.

Solution 6: Corrosive sublimate, 1 dram; water, 1 gallon: mix and dissolve. Label Poison." This is approximately a 1:1,000 solution. Its use should always be undert he direction of some intelligent and careful person. This is not trustworthy as a disinfectant of fresh sputum. Destroys metals and gilding. Must be mixedi n wood, glass, or earthenware.

Solution 7: Solution of formaldehyde (formalin), 6 ounces: water, 1 gallon: mix. This mixture contains a little less than 2 per cent of formaldehyde. (The Sanitary Record, London, England, May 25, 1900.)

Thereshould be some adequate legislation in regard to the transportation through the Territory of dead bodies. The board has had valuable assistance from the New Mexico Medical Society, which is composed of about 95 per cent of the licensed physicians in the Territory.