[Fifth annual] report of the trustees of the State Idiot Asylum : Feb 11, 1856 / New York State Asylum for Idiots.

  • New York State Asylum for Idiots
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[1856?]
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Credit: [Fifth annual] report of the trustees of the State Idiot Asylum : Feb 11, 1856 / New York State Asylum for Idiots. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Albany, and within easy visiting distance for the members dur¬ ing the session. The school was organized, and pupils of a great variety of mental deficiency were received from all parts of the State. During the four years of the continuance of the Asylum at Albany, a majority of the Members of each Legislature actually visited it, and usually in so small parlies that they could wit¬ ness the details of the system of instruction and its results, with¬ out disturbing the routine of occupations and exercises of the pupils. The results elicited were more valuable than any reasoning upon the subject, and the evidence of the practical conviction of the members has been seen, as I have before intimated, in our rapid growth and present position. There are now between eighty and ninety pupipls connected with the Asylum. There are at least thirty more children for whose admission to the Asylum applications have already been made to its officers. Some of these are of a very pressing character, I would there¬ fore suggest the enlargement of the number of pupils another year, at least to the extent of one hundred State pupils. The material items of expenditure for the Asylum would not need to be much increased by such enlargement. To meet the current expenses of the establishment, with the number I have mentioned, for another year, will require an ap¬ propriation from the Legislature at its next session, of fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000). It will be remembered that the purchase money of the furni¬ ture necessary for the new building, and our present number of pupils, and also the expense of removal from Albany to this place, was obtained by borrowing from the amount appropriated for the annual expenses of the' Asylum during the present year, with the exception of a thousand dollars. This all amounts to some four thousand five hundred dollars. To enable us to get comfortably through the present fiscal year with the multitude of little expenses likely to occur, that ought
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