Seventeenth annual report of the managers of the State Lunatic Asylum : transmitted to the Legislature February 7, 1860 / New York State Lunatic Asylum.

  • New York (State). State Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1860
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Credit: Seventeenth annual report of the managers of the State Lunatic Asylum : transmitted to the Legislature February 7, 1860 / New York State Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    such person became insane within a year next prior to the date of his certificate. On granting such certificate, the judge may, in his discretion, require the friends of the patient to give security to the superintendent of the poor of the county, to remove the patient from the asylum at the end of two years, in case he does not sooner recover. When a patient, who is admitted into the asylum on the certificate of the county judge, given pursuant to the twenty-sixth section of the aforesaid act, has remained in the asylum two years, and has not recovered, the Superintendent of the asylum shall send notice by mail to the overseer of the poor of the town where the patient resided at the time of his admission into the asylum, or to the county judge of the county from which he was sent, that such patient has remained two years in the asylum, and has not recovered, and that he should be removed from the >asylum, and that in case he is not removed, the expense of his support will be chargeable to the county, until he is so removed, and then such expense shall be chargeable to the county accordingly; but in every case where a patient admitted into the asylum, pursuant to the provisions of the twenty-sixth section of said act, shall have remained there two years, and has not recovered, the managers of the as}Tum may, in their discretion, cause such patient to be returned to the county from which he came, and charge the expense of such removal to the county.” The object of this humane provision is undoubtedly to extend the benefits of this institution to persons with limited means, whose insanity is of a re¬ cent date, and therefore probably curable, and if recovered in the space of two years, restoring them to their families and their property unimpaired, and saving them from the paralyzing influence upon their future life, of finding themselves, by the loss of health and reason, reduced to beggary. Patients sent through this channel, generally supply their own clothing, and pay their own traveling expenses to and from the Asylum. Patients supported by their friends are received without any rther paper than certificates from county or bank officers, or other prominent individuals, of the ability of those who become bound for their support in the As}dum, to meet all expenses incurred. The form of agreement entered into by the person or sureties who become bound for the patient admitted, is as follows : Whereas, --, of the town of-, in the county of -, an insane person, has been admitted as a patient into the New York State Lunatic Asylum, at Utica : Now, therefore, we, the undersigned, in con¬ sideration thereof, bind ourselves to Edmund A. Wetmore, treasurer of said Asylum, to pay to him and his successors in office, the sum of-- dollars and-cents per week, for the care and board of said insane per¬ son so long as he shall continue in said Asylum, with such extra charges as may be occasioned by his requiring more than ordinary care and atten¬ tion, and also to provide him with suitable clothing, and pay for all such necessary articles of clothing as shall be procured for him by the steward of the Asylum, and to remove him from the Asylum whenever the room