Forty-seventh annual report of the managers of the State Lunatic Asylum at Utica, for the year ending Sept. 30, 1889 : transmitted to the legislature March, 1890 / New York State Lunatic Asylum.
- New York (State). State Lunatic Asylum
- Date:
- 1890
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Credit: Forty-seventh annual report of the managers of the State Lunatic Asylum at Utica, for the year ending Sept. 30, 1889 : transmitted to the legislature March, 1890 / New York State Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![little does it know liow muck, it owes to those good men and women of om nursing staff who have shown a constant “ enthusiasm of humanity” in their work for the sick. A few incompetent persons have been discharged, it is true, but on the whole the services performed by this worthy class of employes have been eminently satisfactory. Lectures to nurses.— Lectures were delivered during the winter months by Dr. Pilgrim and listened to by the nurses with profit to themselves and advantage to the house. Medical staff. There have been no changes in the medical staff during the year. Dr. Pilgrim, first assistant physician, was accorded leave of absence during the summer to go to Europe. The temporary vacancy thus created was filled by Dr. F. T. Metcalfe of the Marine hospital service. It gives me pleasure to commend the efficiency of the medical officers and bear testimony to their valued assistance in promoting the objects of the institution. Acknowledgment.— The record shows the number of visits made to the institution by managers to have been 271, but such visita¬ tion has in fact been more frequent than the visiting-book indicates. This is in itself proof, not only of benevolence and zeal in the discharge of a public trust, but also of the efficient support, kindly encouragement and wise counsel I have myself received at your hands throughout the year in the per¬ formance of my duties as superintendent. For never-failing tokens of your favor and sympathy and for your cordial cooperation in the grand work of hospitalizing this asylum and strengthening, by your broad views of management, the hands of the medical officers • in the treatment and cure of a sorely-stricken class of sufferers, I give you my warmest thanks. On the threshold of another year one need not be faint of heart and weary in advance when, in your attitude of the past, there is so much of cheer and strength to inspire renewed effort and to afford needed solace in those trials and tribulations that must mingle inevitably with all pleasurable achievement in behalf of the insane. G. ALDER BLUMER. September 30, 1889. [Senate, No. 13.] 9](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30317691_0065.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
