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Excerpt from Report of the State of the New York Hospital and Bloomingdale Asylum, for the Year 1866 First - Where the Institution can remain undisturbed by any large settlement for at least another fifty years. Secondly - The area of land should be so ample that not less than fifty acres may be appropriated as exercising ground, for each sex, leaving a liberal allowance for gardening and farming purposes, and, beyond this, a Still further extension for eventually forming long walks, and a drive on the Asylum property itself. T badly - The site should be within a short distance and easy access from some existing settlement or village having a railroad sta tion. While a certain measure Of retirement is necessary for privacy, actual solitude is to be avoided as being oppressive, alike to patients and employees. This last class Of persons must be remembered as forming a portion of the Asylum household, on whom much of its ability and favorable influences depend. They must be kept con tented and cheerful, so far as this can be done, by reasonable and proper privileges; and it is obvious that this cannot be done if they are too far or too long isolated from the outer world. An Asylum is also in almost daily need of communication with various small trades men, and with a post office; and all classes of its servitors, as well as some of the patients, reasonably desire to be within convenient walking distance of their respective places of public worship. It may, therefore, be said that the nearer the grounds approach a moderately sized settlement, the better it is for an Institution, provided they be sufficiently spacious to insure the requisite degree of privacy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.