Third annual report of the trustees of the New-York State Asylum for Idiots.

  • New York State Asylum for Idiots.
Date:
[1854?]
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Credit: Third annual report of the trustees of the New-York State Asylum for Idiots. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    IN ASSEMBLY, FEB. 1,1854. , — ——— — THIRD ANNUAL REPORT Of the Trustees of the New-York State Asylum for idiots. To the Legislature of the State of New- York: In obedience to the provisions of the act passed July 10, 1851. to establish an asylum for idiots, the undersigned trustees of the institution respectfully submit this their third annual REPORT, The asylum was opened for the admission of pupils in the month of October, 1851, and at the time of the annual report in January, 1852, eighteen children had been received; at the time of the second annual report, January, 1853, the whole number of State pupils allowed by law, thirty, were in the institution, and also twelve, whose parents or friends contributed wholly or in part to their support. There are now forty State pupils and ten pay pupils. What was deemed an experiment has therefore been fully tested by more than two years’ experience, and those of the undersigned who have had an opportunity of comparing the pre¬ sent condition of those children with that which they exhibited at the time of their admission, do not hesitate in expressing our thorough conviction that the experiment has been entirely suc¬ cessful. Those of us who, from the recent assumption of our du¬ ties as trustees, have not had such opportunity, are satisfied of the same result from the information we have received. [Assembly, No. 54.] 1 [u.n.2000L.500T.&S.J