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A HISTORY OF THE ASYLUMS FOR THE INSANE IN MICHIGAN BY HENRY M. HURD, M. D.
They had visited the several places from which proposals had been received, and after due examination and deliberation, had located the Asylum for the Insane at Kalamazoo, and selected Flint as the site of the Asylum for the Education of the Deaf, Dumb and Blind. They had received from the citizens of Kalamazoo the sum of fifteen hundred dollars, secured by conditional notes payable in six, twelve and eighteen months, in addition to a site for the asylum, containing ten acres of land, a description of which was filed with the Secretary of State. "' In obedience to a resolution. of the house of representatives a schedule of these notes was presented a few weeks afterwards and printed as a public document. The entire sum was found to amount to fifteen hundred and six dollars, payable partly in cash, and a part in labor and material. At this session an appropriation of $5,000 was made
from the general fund and ten additional sections of salt spring lauds were set aside for the erection of suitable buildings and their maintenance.
At this session of the legislature the Secretary of State presented a report which showed the number of insane people in the Stale. The number reported was 63 males and 47 females, a total of 120; but as of these, 24 were reported to be insane from infancy, and ten idiotic, it is altogether probable that 35 of the number were not properly insane persons, and the balance of 85 represented the actual number of persons in the State who were recognized to be insane. Out of 120 persons, six were patients under treatment at eastern asylums at private expense, 22 were paupers in county poor houses, 39 were indigent or supported by charity, and 59 were taken care of by their friends.
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