The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1850-12-17
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kNcs CoUSTT LUSArfc AsYLua uosrfIAL.-Ths
committee directed by tie Board Of Supervisors, In
heptsnber last inquire into the state So these
establish nts have made their report TO that board
BY which appears that the increase Of this city and
other parts q the county has made the present build
pgs quite inadequate TO the wants Of the population
The Lans'i9 Asylum lshich !. situated Ga ths Flat
mere prison. and Sfiordng the physicians 70 whom
great crset for attention IL given no opportunity Of
20 be Of 90 much avail IA the eases OF lunacy and
Having them alternative than merely TO sists
Of the luBstics fined within the house.
and see that they do q injure themselves or each
ether and that they kept clean and fed regularly
and TO prescribe simply for their physical dersngs
ments, as they may observe them from day to day.
The mit.es discourage sitogstter the proposition
made for adding wings IN the present edihee aud
ptenosnce u totally unit no. for the purpose, what
may have been ct tue time Of It's erection ave
years arc IL then designed 20 accom- mods.e sons
one hundred and ten ar. crowded within is walls the
cCmmen ball being employed partly a. dlrmitory.
III. road hayirg also becom. such public thoro.gh-
fsre. the inmates ~ the asylum most obisc-
tionsbly exposed TO the ipquisitive and Idle gaze
Of the passsrs by The whole establishment is, more
over, reported as badly arranged aud not properly
ventlated aud the cells which are the only places
Of security. ia extreme described ~ NOSE
, sos being camp, aud ,sssv 20 IRE
progress OF their meatal improvement the last
grave objection stated IT, thst the ouueng being
would La most disastrous The committees, therefore,
strongly rcconmend measures being tahsn for the
erection OF . new asyium ia more eligible situation,
and the appropriation Of the present buding TO
other useful purpose The statistics given fol-
lows, buf scarcely know hor far 10 rely on them.
q. the report contains complsnt that the manner In
vhch the books have been Kept renders 70 difficult to
sscertan the particulars correctly The nnmber OF
pasntt at present s OF OF whom 70 are psuper ones
Of those not chargesbe, are from other countless
and 2 az the expense OF the Commissioners OF
kmizrstion. During the year ending LIST August lest,
l46 patients 63 males and So femass have received
medical Treatment 20 have been discharged cured n
males and II femaes); improved, "a males and fe-
maiel! unm proved. a male and fsmsI.sl, ~ deg
Is males aud femses); and gone TO wards Island,
u males and 3femsles In the Hospital are 1856 via
20 en- migrants, and IFS Kings county patients This
building very recently erected and then supposed TO
he sufficiently large, is nov reported 20 be far too
smsl TO meet the requirements Of the rapid increase
Of this county and the managers have been obliged to
get up two temporary wards 10 vas not designed to
accommodate more than $50, yet In August 2o6 we're
domiced there. The Committee however, 40 not
recommend the erection Of any new bundinx ~ they
suggest that when the aims house. new In progress
are completed there WILL for some time Ia come, ~
room TO spare applicable to the purposes Of the hos
pital In caee Of emergency,