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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    occupied by him shall be required for a class of patients having preference by law,ror whenever he shall be required to be removed by the Managers or Superintendent; and we also engage to pay all expenses incurred by the managers or Superintendent in sending said patient to his friends, in case one or either of us shall fail to remove said patient when required to do so as aforesaid; and if he shall be removed at the request of his friends, before the expiration of six calendar months after reception, then we engage to pay board for twenty-six weeks, unless he should be sooner cured, and also to pa}% not exceeding fifty dollars, for all damages he may do to the furniture or other property of said Asylum, and for reasonable charges in case of elopement, and funeral charges in case of death ; such payments for board and clothing to be made semi-annually, on the first day of February and August in each year, and at the time of removal, with interest on each bill, from and after the time it becomes due. “ In witness whereof, we have hereunto set our names this the — day of —, in the year 185—.” This agreement, or understanding, is generally signed by near relatives or other friends of the patient, or legal guardians, if any such there be, at or prior to the time of admission, or subsequently, upon the deposit, on the admission of the patient, of a sum of money sufficient to secure its execution. “ When an insane person in indigent circumstances shall have been sent to the Asylum by his friends, who have paid his bills therein for six months, if the Superintendent shall certify that he is a fit patient, and likely to be benefited by remaining in the institution, the supervisors of the county of his residence are authorized and required, upon an application under oath in his behalf, to raise a sum of money sufficient to defray the expenses of his remaining there another year, and to pay the same to the treasurer of the Asylum. And they shall repeat the same for two succeeding years, upon like application and the production of a new certificate each year, of like import, from the Superintendent.” We regret to be obliged to call the attention of county officers to the following law, which is too frequently overlooked or disregarded : “All town and county officers sending a patient to the Asylum, shall, before sending him, see that he is in a state of perfect bodily cleanliness, and is comfortably clothed and provided with suitable changes of raiment, as prescribed in the by-laws.” * We request especially that patients brought to us from county houses be clean and free from vermin. All patients require at least two suits of clothing and several changes of under garments. Most of the patients go out regularly, and conse¬ quently require clothing suited to the season. For males, great-coats and boots are required in winter, shoes answer in the summer, slippers are worn in the house. Females also need ample clothing for riding or walk¬ ing in the winter. The supply should be liberal when it can be afforded. All clothing is