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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![No. 25.] 39 Apples,. 3 bushels. Beets,. 11 u Cheese,...... 221 lbs. Squashes,. 100 lbs. Starch,... 8 lbs. Soap, (hard,)... 78 lbs. Soap, (soft,) ... 31 barrels. Pepper, ...... II lbs. Salt,. 3 boxes. Men attendants, 15, including the watchman. Women attendants, 15, including the watch woman. The asylum has been constantly full the year past, and much of the time crowded. With but suitable accommodations for 250 patients we have at no time during the year, had less than 260, and much of the time, from 270 to 280. We have always considered this too crowded a condition, but so great has been the importunity of the friends of the insane, and so urgent the necessities of some who were brought from remote parts of the State, that we have admitted a considerable number when already too full. But notwithstanding all our efforts in this respect, we have been reluctantly compelled to refuse admission to a considerable number. This has been the most unpleasant duty we have had to perform in relation to the asylum^ ✓ to close its doors to the insane who applied for admission, and who, in all probability, might have been benefited could we have received them. In many such cases, we have found it difficult to convince the friends of patients that we could not receive one more, and some we fear, have been dissatisfied. But we have endeavored to do what was just. To receive additional patients when we are already crowded, not only prevents our doing justice to the cases thus admitted, but jeopardizes the welfare of those already in the asylum. To accommodate the most recent and curable cases, many old and incurable ones have been discharged, agreeably to the provisions of the law, passed May 7, 1844, which authorizes the managers so to do, u that preference may be given in the admission of patients to recent cases or cases of not more than one year's duration.” Owing to insufficient apartments for making numerous classes of patients, we have not been able to admit patients belonging to one](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30317502_0041.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
