Third annual report of the managers of the State Lunatic Asylum : made to the Legislature January 23, 1846 / New York State Lunatic Asylum at Utica.

  • New York (State). State Lunatic Asylum.
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1846
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Credit: Third annual report of the managers of the State Lunatic Asylum : made to the Legislature January 23, 1846 / New York State Lunatic Asylum at Utica. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    $11,759.95 from patients who are supported by the assistance of friends, or by their own property. The chaige for board of the poor, or any person in indigent cir¬ cumstances, whose support is chargeable to a town or county, has been two dollars per week since the first of February, 1844. Prior to that time it was two dollars and fifty cents per week. The other patients are generally charged two dollars and fifty cents per week, but in some cases, peculiar in their character, three dollars, or three dollars and fifty cents per week is charged, though now nearly all denominated u pay patientsare charged at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per week. This includes all charges except or clothing. From the experience we have already had, we think it is safe to say, that the current receipts for the board of patients, at the prices now charged, and at the prices during the last year of provisions and labor, will be fully adequate to the payment of all the current ex¬ penses of the Asylum for general support, exclusive of the salaries of the resident officers, which are, by law, paid from the State treasury. Such, at least, has been the case since the Asylum was opened for the admission of patients in 1843, and we cannot now foresee what contingency can arise, under the existing order of things, to reduce the current receipts to an amount not adequate to meet all the cur¬ rent expenses, for general support. We have paid, during the past year, out of the current receipts, the sum of $1,403.52 for alterations, additions, and repairs of the building, and $1,616.65 for the purchase of additional furniture. These items are, probably, larger than they will be annually hereaf¬ ter, although in such an institution there must necessarily be expended each year, considerable sums for repairs, and to replenish worn out beds, bedding, and furniture. The original estimate, made by the former trustees’of the Asylum, of the cost of furnishing the present building, was $16,076.88. (Se¬ nate Documents 1842, No. 20, page 46). There have been expended to this date for furniture in all $13,414.96. There was a balance of $8,287.24 in the treasury on the 1st of De- [Senate, No. 25.] 2