In the meantime, however, there was no shortage of treatment options for patients, most of which were considered successful. Electric shock therapy was administered for the first time at Brattleboro on September 29, 1949. Between that day and June, 1950, 113 patients were treated with shock, and 45 of those 113 were discharged. Shock treatments averaged 20 sessions per person, and the patients who had been ill for a shorter period of time preceding the therapy tended to respond more favorably. Additionally, Brattleboro offered insulin therapy, which was believed to be an effective way to treat sub-coma patients with schizophrenia who had been ill for less than 1.5 years, or full-coma patients with recent onset schizophrenia. There was also hydrotherapy, expanded recreational and occupational therapy departments, and the addition of a “full-power clinical x-ray machine” in 1949.