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
Date:
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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    cember, the date of the treasurer’s report, about $5,500 of which will be required to pay the bills payable in December, leaving $2,787.24 for expenses until the semi-annual bills due 1st of February, for board, are collected. By an act, passed May 7, 1844, in relation to the Asylum, the sum of $60,000 was appropriated for the erection of u two additional wings of brick for the accommodation of patients, to be connected with the wings of the present building, each of said wings not to ex¬ ceed 250 feet in length, 38 feet in width, and three stories in heighth, exclusive of the basement, and also for the erection of two buildings of brick, to be connected with the said new wings, for hospitals, wash¬ ing and ironing rooms, and shops for the use of said Asylum.” The buildings thus authorized to be erected were to be in lieu of those planned and commenced by the former building commissioners in 1836. The commissioners, originally appointed to adopt a plan and superintend the erection of this Asylum, planned and commenced in 1836 the erection of four buildings 550 feet in length each, only one of which (the present Asylum building) was erected, and the founda¬ tions of the others were commenced, and the basements partly laid. In 1844, the board of managers recommended the abandonment of the original plan as too large and expensive, and the erection of the wings as authorized by the act of that year. These additional wings, as erected, are each 240 feet in length, in- * eluding the verandahs, and 38 feet in width ; and the rear buildings for hospitals, washing and ironing rooms and shops, are each 137 feet in length, 25 feet in width, and two stories high, exclusive of the basement. These buildings, when erected, will complete the estab¬ lishment, as no further enlargement is desirable or contemplated. In the erection of these wings, we have varied the plan of the inte¬ rior arrangement from what was originally contemplated, by making sixteen associated dormitories. This alteration considerably enlarges the capacity of the institution, without adding to the expense of building. We commenced the erection of the buildings, authorized to be erected by the act of the 7th of May, 1844, in July of that year, and have expended, as will be seen by the treasurer’s report, of the build-
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