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Show REPORT IS APPROVED. State Mental Hospital Board Makes Up Its Accounts for August. Special to The Tribune. . PROVO, Sept. 17. The members of the state commission In lunacy Governor William Spry, State Treasurer Jesse D. Jewkes and State Auditor Lincoln G. Kelly attended the monthly meeting of t h e b oa i d here t od a y . The accounts for August were audited and approved in the following amounts: Salaries, $2924.15; current - expenses, $2769.99 ; feeble-minded department, $232.75; piggery, $293.16. There are now 500 patients, including the feeble minded, in the institution, the highest number in its history. This num-. ber was reached by August 1, and has remained stationary through tthe month. The following is Superintendent D. H. Calder's report on the movement of patients pa-tients for August: Men.1 Women. Tot. In attendance July 31. .248 221 469 Admitted 8 4 12 i Under care and treat- I ment 256 225 4R1 Discharged 7 3 10 . Died 1 l 2 ! Remaining August 21.24S 225 4C9 Feeble minded 18 13 3 1 , ! Total v 256 244 600 |