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New York State Custodial Asylum for Feeble-Minded Women Record of Inmates
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Finding aid created by: MRC
Date: 22 May 2014
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Finding aid created by: MRC
Date: 22 May 2014
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| Creator: | New York State Custodial Asylum for Feeble-Minded Women. |
| Title: | New York State Custodial Asylum for Feeble-Minded Women Record of Inmates |
| Dates: | 1878-circa 1915 |
| Quantity: | 1 folder (SC) |
| Abstract: | Bound volume, covering admissions September 16, 1878 - September12, 1888, with discharge notes dating through the early 1900s. |
| Language: | English |
| Repository: |
Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries 222 Waverly Avenue Syracuse, NY 13244-2010 https://library.syracuse.edu/special-collections-research-center |
The New York State Custodial Asylum for Feeble-Minded Women in Newark, New York was opened in September, 1878 as a branch of the Syracuse State Institution for Feeble-minded Children. Its purpose was to provide a place for women who were too old for the Syracuse institution but could not be discharged. In 1885, by an act of the Legislature, it was made a separate institution. The Asylum was capable of housing more than 800 inmates and had about a hundred employees, including a superintendent, steward, storekeeper, matron and resident physician. (The Institutional Care of the Insane in the United States and Canada, Volume III, by Henry Mills Hurd et al., The John Hopkins Press, 1916, pp. 250-251.)
The New York State Custodial Asylum for Feeble-Minded Women Record of Inmates consists of one bound volume, recording admissions beteen 1878 and 1888. Some of the pages are annotated with "Discharged" and a date, up through approximately 1915. Each patient record consists of three pages of information, including name, age, place of birth, general health, temperament, habits, and a few items of family history.
Single volume.
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Corporate Bodies
New York State Custodial Asylum for Feeble-Minded Women.
Subjects
Inmates of institutions -- United States.
Mental health services -- United States.
Mentally ill -- Commitment and detention.
Psychiatric hospitals -- New York (State)
Women -- Mental health.
Places
New York (State) -- History.
Genres and Forms
Administrative records.
Medical records.
Preferred Citation
Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
New York State Custodial Asylum for Feeble-Minded Women Record of Inmates,
Special Collections Research Center,
Syracuse University Libraries
Acquisition Information
Purchase, 2014.
Administrative records
| Administrative records | |||||||||||
| SC 710 | Record of Inmates, Nos 1 to 100 1878- circa 1915 | ||||||||||