Willard Asylum for the Insane. Eleventh Annual Report
The Willard Asylum, at Seneca Lake, N.Y., is the largest institution of its kind in America. It accommodates over fifteen hundred patients, and in 1879 there were, of a total of 1,548, 93 patients discharged. The asylum buildings are very extensive, and are arranged in a way to secure the largest possible amount of freedom to the inmates. During the year with which the report deals considerable alterations and addi- tions have been effected, and the whole of the details in connec- tion with the institution are apparently of the best character possible. The desirability of having a laboratory for the scientific study of insanity by means of physiological and pathological observations, conducted with appliances requisite to accurate research, is a suggestion which has been made in this report also. We trust it will commend itself to the authorities whose consent to the expenditure involved in carrying out the idea must be obtained. The tables contained in this report, though less full and complete than they might be made, yet exhibit much useful information, but the explanatory text is throughout fall of practical hints and highly useful information, which will be suggestively important to the working alienist.
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