Fourth annual report of the trustees of the New-York State Asylum for Idiots.

  • New York State Asylum for Idiots.
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[1855?]
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Credit: Fourth annual report of the trustees of the New-York State Asylum for Idiots. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    istotr of SK- No. 33. IN ASSEMBLY, JAN. 23,1855. FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT Of (lie Trustees of the New-York Slate Asylum for Idiots* To the Hon. the Legislature of the State of New- York: In conformity to the provisions of the law of July 10th, 1851, establishing an Asylum for Idiots, the undersigned, trustees of the said institution, Respectfully Report : In compliance with the suggestions of the Legislature at its last session, which authorized a sale of the site bought for the institu¬ tion on the Troy road, and the purchase of another, if, in the judgment of the trustees it were deemed advisable, the board felt themselves bound to review their former action in relation to the location of the Asylum. Accordingly, at a meeting convened in April last, a committee was appointed, consisting of Messrs. Pohlman, Townsend and Leavenworth, to examine the various locations which had been suggested as adapted to the purposes of the institution in the neighborhood of Albany. This committee, after a careful exam¬ ination of the several localities, reported that they had been able to find no spot which combined so many advantages as the site which the board had already selected; and that the chief objec¬ tions which had been urged against its occupation, might, in their