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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    ciated by those on whom they are bestowed, and are arduous and often extremely disagreeable. As a body, I can well commend them for efficiency and fidelity. Some are found inefficient and unfaithful, and this is to be expected, especially when so large a number is employed, and there are changes constantly occurring. The regulations of the institution, anticipating this common experience of life, provide for the prompt dis¬ missal of such persons, and this is the course pursued. To you, gentlemen, I need hardly say that increasing years of experience do not lessen my duties and sense of responsibility, but, on the contrary, increase their weight, I, therefore, feel that I must lean upon you for counsel and support. I have , always earnestly endeavored so to discharge the great trust confided to me, that the highest results of the efforts of all might be secured, both for the public and individual, and that all the benefits of advancing medical science should be secured and applied to the welfare of those afflicted. In thus consecrating my energies to public service, I have also sought the constant guidance of that Divine wisdom through which alone men can hope for the greatest measure of success in their labors for the good of mankind. Dec. 1 Mi, 1870. JOHN P. GRAY.