Annual report of the managers of the State Lunatic Asylum : made to the Legislature, January 31, 1845 / New York State Lunatic Asylum at Utica.
- New York (State). State Lunatic Asylum
- Date:
- 1845
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Credit: Annual report of the managers of the State Lunatic Asylum : made to the Legislature, January 31, 1845 / New York State Lunatic Asylum at Utica. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![ding and levelling the surface of the ground, and of forming the walks and avenues, can be advantageously performed by the patients, thus affording them both employment and recreation, greatly conducive to their restoration to health, and their enjoyment while inmates of the Asylum. The expense of enclosing the grounds with a suitable fence will be considerable, to defray which an appropriation from the treasury may hereafter be needed. They are now enclosed by the fence which ^ was built before the farm was purchased by the State. The receipts, for the board of patients, during the last year, have been adequate to the payment of all the current expenses of the Asy¬ lum. We reduced the charge for board of “ the poor or any person in indigent circumstances, whose support is chargeable to a town or county,” from $2.50 to $2 per week from 1st of February, 1844. We made this reduction with some apprehensions as to its result; but we are gratified in being able to say that our apprehensions of a deficit, in the income to meet expenses, have not been realized. For the favorable result in this respect, much credit is due to the judicious and efficient management of the steward, upon whom de¬ volves the duty of procuring the necessary supplies for the whole household. The sum, as appears .by the treasurer’s report, actually received into the treasury, for the board and clothing of patients, during the year, is $28,948.98. The sum charged for board alone, during the year, is $28,224.65. The bills for board, some of which that are due still remain unpaid, are paid semi-annually on the first of August and February. From the results of the last year, we feel fully warranted in ex¬ pressing the opinion, that the current receipts, at the prices for board now charged, will equal the current expenses of the Asylum, for gene¬ ral support during the year ensuing. The products of vegetables, milk and pork, from the farm, are be¬ ginning to constitute an important item in lessening the expenses of living ; and we anticipate still increased productions from this source, from the system of manuring and culture, which has but just been commenced. [Assembly, No. 29.] 2](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30304702_0011.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
