Annual report of the managers of the State Lunatic Asylum : made to the Legislature, January 31, 1845 / New York State Lunatic Asylum at Utica.

  • New York (State). State Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1845
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Credit: Annual report of the managers of the State Lunatic Asylum : made to the Legislature, January 31, 1845 / New York State Lunatic Asylum at Utica. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Of the Managers of the State Lunatic Asylum, for the year ending November 80th, 1844, TO THE LEGISLATURE. The managers of the State Lunatic Asylum, respectfully submit the following REPORT, Five hundred and fifty one patients have been received into the Asylum since it was first opened for their admission on the 16th of January, 1843, a period of one year, ten and a half months. Patients have been admitted from fifty-^four of the fifty-nine orgam ized counties of the State. Three hundred and twenty-nine of the patients, so admitted, have been supported by or chargeable to, coun¬ ties or towns ; and two hundred and twenty-two have been private patients, supported by their own property, or the aid of relatives or friends. During the same period, two hundred and ninety-one patients have been discharged from the Asylum, of whom one hundred and eighty- five were discharged recovered ; sixty-one improved ; twenty-two un¬ improved, and twenty-three have died, leaving in the institution at the date of this report, two hundred and sixty. The large number of patients received into the Asylum since it was first opened, is a gratifying evidence of the favorable regard in which it is held by the public, as well as a convincing proof of the ne¬ cessity and propriety of establishing this munificent charity. Under the successful management of its present able and experi¬ enced superintendent, we think we are authorized to say that the in-«