Eighth annual report of the managers of the State Lunatic Asylum : made to the Legislature February 27, 1851 / New York State Lunatic Asylum at Utica.
- New York (State). State Lunatic Asylum
- Date:
- 1851
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Eighth annual report of the managers of the State Lunatic Asylum : made to the Legislature February 27, 1851 / New York State Lunatic Asylum at Utica. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![The Institution is greatly indebted to the care, fidelity and busi¬ ness capacity of our Treasurer, (who has held his office from the time the Asylum was first opened for the admission of patients) for the proper management of its funds. The appropriation off1,500, made by the Legislature on the 16th ot April, 1850, for the purchase of the library left by the late Doct Brigham in the Asylum at the time of his decease, has been drawn irom the State Treasury and expended for this purpose. The library thus purchased contained most of the European and American works relating to the subject of insanity, as well as many medical works, •and is a valuable acquisition to such an institution. It was pur- chased at the appraisal of Dr. T. R. Beck. The sum of f2,500 appropriated at the same time by the Legisla¬ ture (or the purchase of furniture during the last year, has also been expended for that purpose, with much advantage and benefit to the patients. It aided in part to supply deficient in furniture mufS needed m some parts ot the house. A like sum also appropriated at the same time and for the same purpose for the current year can be beneficially and usefully expended, and still some parts of the house will remain with hardly sufficient furniture for the proper accommo- dation of its inmates. The law of last session restricting the power of county judges to send indigent persons, not paupers, to the Asylum to be supported at the expense of the county, to recent cases—that is, to cases where the person has become insane within one year next prior to the grant¬ ing of a certificate by the county judge, has been effectual to obviate the complaints that were formerly made by some county officers of the indiscreet exercise of the power by county judges. During the yeai, one hundred and sixteen patients were sent by county judges, and most, if not all of them, were very fit cases for treatment in an asylum ior the] insane, and were deserving of the public aid and bounty. It will be seen by reference to the treasurer’s report, that the ex¬ penditure for alterations and repairs was larger than during previous years. This was occasioned in part by the alteration of old and the](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30317484_0011.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
