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OFFICERS.

SUPERINTENDENT:
HERVEY B. WILBUR, M. D.

MATRON:
Miss ALVIRA WOOD.

ASSISTANT MATRON:
MRS. IRA WHITE.

HOUSEKEEPER:
MRS. M. A. YOUNG.

TEACHERS:
MISS S. P. YOUNG,
MRS. OLIVE SAWTELLE,
MRS. LAURA EATON,
MISS M. F. COZZENS,
MRS. M.E. COOK,
MISS L. PETHERAM,
MISS IDA KIPP,
MISS LILY BUSH.

STEWARD:
BENJAMIN N. EASTMAN.

IN CHARGE OF NEWARK BRANCH ASYLUM:
MR. & MRS. C. C. WARNER.

TRUSTEES.
ALLEN MUNROE.
GEORGE F. COMSTOCK.
FREDERICK D. HUNTINGTON.
DANIEL PRATT.
NATHAN F. GRAVES.
E. W. LEAVENWORTH.
ALFRED WILKINSON.
FRANK HISCOCK.

STATE OFFICERS-EX-OFFICIO TRUSTEES:
A. B. CORNELL, Governor.
GEORGE G. HOSKINS, Lieutenant-Governor.
JOSEPH B. CARR, Secretary of State.
JAMES W. WADSWORTH, Comptroller.
NEIL GILMOUR, Superintendent of Public Instruction.

PERMANENT CHAIRMAN:
E. W. LEAVENWORTH.

SECRETARY AND TREASURER: ALLEN MUNROE.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE:
A. WILKINSON.
NATHAN F. GRAVES.
E. W. LEAVENWORTH.

No. 26.

STATE OF NEW YORK.

IN ASSEMBLY,

JANUARY 15, 1880.

TWENTY-NINTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE NEW YORK ASYLUM FOR IDIOTS.

To the Legislature of the State of New York:

Agreeably to the provisions of the act establishing this institution, the undersigned Trustees respectfully submit this their Twenty-ninth Annual Report.

RESOURCES FOR THE YEAR.

The following schedule of expenditures differs a little, in form, from that given in the previous reports of the Board, because it is made to conform to the requirements of the Board of State Charities, as established during the past year.

Classified summary of expenditures on current expense account of the New York Asylum for Idiots, for year ending Sept. 30th,1879.

PROVISIONS

From an examination of the books of the Asylum we are able to report, that on the 1st of October, 1879, there were outstanding obligations and cash assets, in the following amounts:

The cash assets of the Asylum at same date were as follows:

It will be seen from this statement that the institution is practically out of debt.

A year ago we were compelled to report an indebtedness of some thirty-five hundred dollars. That debt has not only been extinguished, but there is now on hand and paid for a full year's supply of coal.

With this result, the Trustees feel authorized, for the coming year, to increase the number of State beneficiaries, with the customary annual appropriation of $45,000-which they would respectfully ask of the present Legislature.

A special grant of $12,000 was made by the last Legislature for the erection of a boiler-house, the purchase of three new boilers and the necessary adjustments of former steam apparatus, as a greater security from the risk of fire.

The work is nearly completed and without exceeding the appropriation. A report of the committee of the Board who had this matter in charge will be found in the Appendix.

Nor have the other buildings been neglected. Most of the inside work of the two oldest buildings and all the tin roofs have been repainted. Some twelve thousand feet of floors have been relaid. With the repairs contemplated for the coining year, all the buildings of the institution will, at the end of that period, be quite thoroughly renovated.

The affairs of the custodial branch of the Asylum, designed for adult female idiots, have been intrusted to a committee of the Board, whose report is annexed. It seems to be accomplishing the work for which it was intended, and at a cost within the estimates of the friends of the measure.

The Board, therefore, commend the report of their committee to the attention of the Legislature, with the hope that then suggestions as to the future of the new Asylum may be favorably regarded.