For removing the insane from the poorhouses : an act to promote the care and curative treatment of the pauper and indigent insane / introduced in Senate by the Hon. J. Sloat Fassett, February 24, 1890 ; introduced in Assembly by Hon. Milo M. Acker, February 24, 1890.

  • New York (State). Legislature.
Date:
1890
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Credit: For removing the insane from the poorhouses : an act to promote the care and curative treatment of the pauper and indigent insane / introduced in Senate by the Hon. J. Sloat Fassett, February 24, 1890 ; introduced in Assembly by Hon. Milo M. Acker, February 24, 1890. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    Whenever a new State asylum is established a number of pauper or indigent patients or both shall be assigned to it, such number to be determined by the State Commission in Lunacy, whereupon said asylum shall be deemed to be embraced within and governed by the provisions of this Act in all respects so far as the same may be applicable; and whenever any new State asylum shall be established, the said Board is hereby required to divide the State again into districts in compliance with the provisions of this Act. Section 3. In order to carry out the intention of this Act, the State Commission in Lunacy is directed to ascertain from time to time what vacancies, if any, exist in any one or more of the State Insane Asylums, and said Commission is hereby authorized and required to forthwith cause the removal to such asylum or asylums, from some one or more of the counties of the district to which said asylum has been assigned, under the provisions of this Act, as many of the pauper and indigent insane patients as can be accommodated. Such removal to be made pursuant to the provisions of section six of this Act. Section 4. To provide for the pauper and indigent insane of the district in which each State asylum is situated, should the existing accommodations not be sufficient for this purpose, there shall be erected on the grounds of such asylum a sufficient number of buildings of a moderate size, each being designed to accommo- date not less than ten nor more than one hundred and fifty patients. It shall be the duty of the Managers or Trustees of each State asylum, within ninety days after they shall have received a copy of the report of said Board, as provided in section two, to cause to be prepared plans, specifications and estimates of the cost and equipment of such buildings, and to submit the same to said Board, and said Board shall thereupon proceed to ex- amine said plans, specifications and estimates, and shall have power to summon before them the Superintendent of the asylum, on whose grounds the said buildings are proposed to be erected, for explanations and suggestions in regard to the same. When the plans of any proposed building or buildings shall have