Twenty-eighth annual report of the managers of the State Lunatic Asylum for the year 1870 : transmitted to the legislature March 25, 1871 / New York State Lunatic Asylum.

  • New York (State). State Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1871
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Credit: Twenty-eighth annual report of the managers of the State Lunatic Asylum for the year 1870 : transmitted to the legislature March 25, 1871 / New York State Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    inexhaustible, and which is wholly within the control of the State. The works for conveying the water to the asylum have been completed during the past season, according to the specifications of the State Engineer, with the exception of some grading, tilling and fencing, which will be finished the ensuing season; and the expense of the whole will fall within the amount appropriated for that purpose. They have also during the year constructed an oval brick sewer of nearly 1,100 feet in length, which requires for its entire completion a considerable amount of embanking for its thorough protection, which it is proposed shall be done at the earliest favorable time. The whole cost of this work, all complete, will not exceed the appropriation for it. In their report of last year, the Managers stated that they had paid out of the current funds, from the receipts for the board of patients, for additions, alter¬ ations, and the repairs of the buildings, within ten years preceding, the sum of $162,518 ; of which sum the State has returned, by special appropriations, only $80,500 ; leaving $82,018 to be borne by the ordinary receipts. Since that report, the Legislature has made a special appropriation, to refund such advances, of $30,000. It will appear by the treasurer’s summary, herewith, that the Managers expended, during the year ending* November 30, 1870, for additions, alterations and repairs, the sum $21,205.86. After deducting this from the appropriation of $30,000, there remains, toward extinguishing the balance of the advances, then (1869) stated to be $82,018, only the sum of $8,794.14, which reduced that balance to $73 223.86. As the Managers