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From "Fourth Annual Report of the New York State Inebriate Asylum", 1866.
Since our last report we have built at an elevation of seventy-five feet above the water table of West building one reservoir capable of holding 75000 gallons of water, nearly completed a second with a capacity for two millions of gallons, laid four thousand feet iron four-inch water pipe, over nine thousand feet of gas and water pipe in building, and placed marble wash stands in each patient's room where an abundant supply of pure water will be furnished. We have furnished the patients rooms with the best quality of bedding, such as linen sheets, scotch blankets, English spreads, feather pillows hair bolsters and mattresses. The rooms are also carpeted and contain chestnut wardrobes, cherry bed-steads, tables, towel racks, oak arm-chairs and marble wash stands. We have been compelled to put up iron fenders to the first story of Ward No. 2 to control the patients and prevent them from leaving the asylum during the continuance of their morbid appetite. The Trustees are desirous of finding some benevolent and Christian person who will donate a sufficient amount of money to finish the chapel which would add greatly to the moral and religious treatment of the patients. There are many philanthropic citizens of our State who would be glad of an opportunity of finishing the chapel of the pioneer institution of the world if the subject could be fully presented to their minds. |