Twelfth annual report of the managers of the State Lunatic Asylum : made to the Legislature January, 1854 / New York State Lunatic Asylum at Utica.

  • New York (State). State Lunatic Asylum.
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1854 [ie 1855]
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Credit: Twelfth annual report of the managers of the State Lunatic Asylum : made to the Legislature January, 1854 / New York State Lunatic Asylum at Utica. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ant physician under Dr. Benedict, and had the charge of the Institution during his absence, was unanimously ap¬ pointed superintendent, in place of Dr. Benedict, resigned. Dr. Edwin II. Yan Deusen, second assistant, was appointed first assistant phyician. On the 19th day of September, Dr. II. S. Swift, acting second assistant, tendered his resignation, to accept the position of resident physcian at theHew-York Hospital; and on the 28th,. Dr. John B. Chapin was appointed second assistant physician, to fill this vacancy. Dr. Chapin had previously been connected with the Hew-York Hospital. The officers who have had the responsible charge and care of the Asylum, have discharged their arduous duties with great diligence and fidelity, and in a manner which entitles them to* the commendation of the Board of Managers. From the annual report of the treasurer, herewith submitted, it will be seen that the current receipts for the support of patients have been equal to the payments for current expenses, leaving a balance of $1,969.52 in the treasury at the end of the year. The recently enhanced price of materials and labor, and of all the staple articles of provisions, so far increased the ex¬ penses of supporting the Institution, that we found it necessary, on the 1st of August last, in order to make our receipts equal our expenditures in the future, to raise the price of board for county patients from two dollars and fifty cents to three dollars per wTeek. An act was passed on the 13th of May, 1846, authorising the officers of the State Prisons to send to this Asylum insane prisoners under their charge. Since the passage of that act, 68 convicts from the State Prisons have been sent to this Institution, 20 of whom are now here. This class of patients are necessarily placed in the same apartments with the others. They are generally troublesome, and difficult to manage, and are unfit companions for the patients with whom we are com¬ pelled to allow them to associate. We have no suitable places of safety and security for them; several, dangerous to the community, and who have been convicted of homicide and other