The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-02-18

511 have died. leaving $50 remaining in the institution
at the close of the year. or the whole number Of
patients (S38) under treatment during the year. 1874
discharged recovered AZ improved lis unmproved
and 65 have died The expenses Of the asylum de-
frayed by the board money received from the pay
PATIENTS Of whom there considerable number and
also from annuity received from the State From the
Teasurers report it appears that the receipts during
the past year amounted to 90 and the expenses
to SS7 ,4sl GO, leaving balance Of 81, 500 52
OF the whole number Of patients admitted, 800, Al
males and females intsmperats and IS males and
"A females accustomed to the of tobacco ITO
males and "a females not members of any religious
society Is had received academic, and 259 common
school education ~ could only read and IL had edu
cation at all.
The following statistics showing the causes OF derange
interesting and instructive showing the diff
ferent agencies which at work in producing insanity
Intemperance and vice As. vicious habits and indal
trouble So change Of life s. defective training H. grief
A. malaria q phthisis pumonals g. hereditary predis
sOspsp snd
ties Is, menstrual irregularities TO- injuries Of
head 4, old age 8. religious excitement l, want
and restitution S, seduction l, disappointment in
love excessive venery l. loss Of sleep coup de solie
2 fever O. dysentery uterine diseases i'll health e.
posurs to heat T. rsmorse 8, chid bearing l. inempsr
auce Of father loss Of property surgical operations
/ severe commissions nostalgia prolonged lactation
l, unascertained 63-total 800
Thirty four patients-eleven males and twonty three
femaleswere admitted during the year, with strong
suicidal propensies In several Of these the
cestors had committed suciden two Of them for three
generations. In male it impulsve he also
homcda and left home at his request because he
felt the inclination to destroy his chldren-whom he
loved tendery-was gradually strengthening, while his
power OF resistance was growing weaker.
or the deaths during the year, there were, from
phthisis pumonals, fifteen; general paralysis four
apopexy two epilepsy, four; erysipelas four hemor
roids two; organic disease Of the liver pm sumo
mia duplex one; typhoid fever, with internal hermorr
hage one chorea one old age and protracted mental
disease, four suicide, four exhaustion, termina
ton Of insanity Of long standing, fve exhaustion the
result OF acute manaca disease and acute paroxym OF
periodic mania, eleven or the latter seven, when ad-
mitted were nearly in collapse: lady, had been
brought journey Of two hundred miles thirty
OF this by stageand lived only few hours two others
OF the number died within twenty four hours after ad
mission.
Within DOORS the shops AFFORD employment 10 many Of
the men, both in winter and summer. In the carpen-
ters shops number Of bureaus wardrobes bedsteAds,
window blinds, bookcases, washstands &c, have been
made and the repairs and breakage Of furniture DOORS
&c, attended to. tew are engaged in the printing Of
fee anc taors shop. The great resources of occupa
ton, however, the farm garden and lawn. For
cessve days through the there have been from
leo to 100 male patients engaged the grounds with
both pleasure and profit to themselves. During the
summer onehaH the front lawn graded and laid out
according to the plans furnished by Mr. A. j. Downing
several The farm and garden have bean
productive than In any previous year.
The newspaper entitled The OPAL conducted and edited
BY the patients themselves Is still published .. the
asylum.