Nineteenth annual report of the managers of the State Lunatic Asylum : transmitted to the Legislature February 5, 1862 / New York State Lunatic Asylum.

  • New York (State). State Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1862
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Credit: Nineteenth annual report of the managers of the State Lunatic Asylum : transmitted to the Legislature February 5, 1862 / New York State Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    daily average number, during the year, has been five hundred and nineteen, which exceeds the number of any previous year. It appears, also, that since the Institution was opened, on the 16th of January, 1843, six thousand three hun¬ dred and forty-two patients have been admitted, and that five thousand eight hundred and ten have been discharged; of which number two thousand five hun¬ dred and twenty-eight had recovered, nine hundred and seventy-two had improved, fifteen hundred and seventeen were discharged unimproved, seven hun¬ dred and forty-four had died, and forty-nine were not insane. The Asylum has been inconveniently crowded dur¬ ing almost the whole year; but, again, we have reason to be grateful that it has been free from epidemic diseases, and from unusual sickness. The percentage of deaths, upon the average population, has been less than ever before. The annual summary report of the Treasurer is, also, herewith submitted; by which it appears that the balance in the treasury, on the first of December, 1860, was $14,706.03; that, in addition to that balance, his receipts from that date to the first of December, 1861, (including the appropriation of $3,885,52 by the supply bill of 1861, and $7,350 for officers’ salaries,) were $113,336.93; that his total expenditures were $114,111.64; and that the balance remaining in the