Thirteenth annual report of the managers of the State Lunatic Asylum at Utica : transmitted to the Legislature February 9, 1856 / New York State Lunatic Asylum at Utica.

  • New York (State). State Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1856
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Credit: Thirteenth annual report of the managers of the State Lunatic Asylum at Utica : transmitted to the Legislature February 9, 1856 / New York State Lunatic Asylum at Utica. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    APPENDIX. For the information of those who may desire to place their friends in this institution, we add the law regulating the admis¬ sion of patients : Reference to laws passed by the Legislature relative to insane persons. Part 1, chap. 20, title 3, art. 1 of the Revised Statutes, a of the safe keeping and care of Lunatics.” Session Laws, 1842, chap. 135, u An act to organize the State Lunatic Asylum, and more effectually to provide for the care, maintenance and recovery of the Insane.” Session Laws, 1850, chap. 282, sec. 2, relating to sending indigent insane persons, not paupers to the Asylum. Session Laws, 1851, chap. 446, amending the law respecting indigent insane persons. u Each county may at all times have one indigent insane patient in the asylum, whose disease at the time of admission was a first attack, and did not exceed six months; and such further number of either old or recent cases as the asylum can ac¬ commodate, in proportion to the insane population of the county. The patients shall be designated by the superintendents of the poor, or, if the county has no such superintendents, by the first judge. (Chap. 135, Session Laws, 1842, sect 25.) u The county superintendents of the poor of any county, and any overseers of the poor of any town to which any person shall be chargeable, who shall be or become a lunatic, may send such person to the lunatic asylum by an order under their hands.”