The history of the first inebriate asylum in the world / by its founder [Jonathan Edward Turner]. An account of his indictment, also a sketch of the Woman's national hospital, by its founder.

  • Turner, J. Edward, 1822-1889.
Date:
1888
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Credit: The history of the first inebriate asylum in the world / by its founder [Jonathan Edward Turner]. An account of his indictment, also a sketch of the Woman's national hospital, by its founder. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    t piil)lic meetiug in l)elialf of the Asylum, to be held in ^ Broadway Tal)ernacle, November 7th, 1855, and that the 1 Rev. Henry W. Bellows, D. D., and the Rev, Roswell ( D. Hitchcock, D. D., be invited to make addresses at the ^ said piil)lic meeting. At the same meeting the Board .j passed a resolution that the following appeal should, in pam[)hlet form, be issued to the public: ASYLUM FOR INEBRIATES—REPORT OF THE DIRECTORS AND APPEAL TO THE PUBLIC. We, the undersigned, ap]3ointed by the legislature of the State of New York, to organize an institution to be known as the “United States Inebriate Asylum,” and to act as commis- sioners to receive subscriptions to the capital stock of said Asylum, do herewith submit to the public the following statement: The object of this institution is to provide an asylum for the poor and destitute inebriate, where his physical and moral condition will be alike the care of the physician and the philan- thropist, and where his labor maybe rendered productive and of service to his family. With the Asylum there will be con- nected workshops, in which each patient, as soon as his con- dition will permit, will be regularly emplo.yed, thus making the Asylum a self-supporting institution. It will be seen that the community will thus be relieved of the burden of main- taining inebriates in almshouses and prisons, who will be sejiarated from the society of those incarcerated foi‘ public crimes, and placed where their inebriety will be treated as a disease, and where no efforts will be wanting to produce in them a thorough restoration to health, and where an income fi'om their labor will be secured to their families, who other- wise would be left to ]ieuury and suffering. To cany out successfully the great aim of the institution fifty thousand dollars must be raised, this being the amount of capital stock required by thecharter. This amount, which can be increased when necessary, is divided into shares of ten dollars each. Any person wishing to subscrilie to its capital stock, can send his name with the amount he will take to anyone of the