Thirty-third annual report of the managers of the State Lunatic Asylum, Utica, N.Y., for the year 1875 : transmitted to the legislature January 13, 1876 / New York State Lunatic Asylum.
- New York (State). State Lunatic Asylum
- Date:
- 1876
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Credit: Thirty-third annual report of the managers of the State Lunatic Asylum, Utica, N.Y., for the year 1875 : transmitted to the legislature January 13, 1876 / New York State Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![grounds on Court street. In the session of 1874, the attention of the legislature having been called to the subject, Mr. Comptroller Hopkins proposed the transfer to the asylum of the iron fence around the capitol park at Albany. Upon the recommendation of the trustees of the capitol the legislature passed a law giving the fence to the asylum, and appropriated $3,000 for the purpose of transporting and rebuilding it. This amount was intended to include the expense of re-setting the stone foundation also, and the trustees of the capitol were to pay for the removal of both fence and founda¬ tion from the capitol grounds and deliver the same to the managers at Albany. Finding, however, that no money had been appropriated for that purpose, the trustees requested the managers to assume temporarily the expense of taking down the fence, and, upon con¬ siderations of economy, to relinquish the old foundation and pro¬ vide a new one. It was found necessary to replace many of the iron posts and under rails of the structure, and to incur very con¬ siderable and unlooked for expense in adjusting it to its new loca¬ tion. The whole outlay has been $4,870.65, of which the taking down was $350, new foundation $1,343.74, making the sum of $1,693.74, advanced by the managers at the request of the trustees of the capitol. The managers respectfully request that this sum, together with the sum of $176.91, necessarily expended for gate- locks and painting in excess of the appropriation of $3,000, be re¬ funded to the current funds of the institution by an appropriation. The managers cannot but express their gratification in having accpiired in the historic capitol fence, so valuable an addition to the security and proper adornment of the asylum grounds. They acknowledge with gratitude their indebtedness to Hon. Nelson K. Hopkins, for devising the adoption of a plan by the proper authori¬ ties, by which this necessary work has been so well accomplished. The pathological investigations have gone on steadily during the year, and the arrangements for the whole work are about completed. The managers have no hesitation in saying that it was wise in the state to authorize such investigations in connection with this institu¬ tion, where the medical officers in charge had so much material and so many facilities at hand for successful experiment. Since this work > was commenced other institutions, in Europe and in this country, have entered upon pathological investigations. The most prominent instance of the kind is that of the West Hiding Asylum at Wakefield, England under the charge of Dr. J. Crichton Browne, where experi¬ ments were begun the next year after Dr. Gray had systematically entered upon the work here. At Wakefield these investigations [Sen. Doc. No. 17.] 2](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30317678_0013.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
