Excerpt from Thirteenth Annual Report of the State Board of Charities: Transmitted to the Legislature February 5, 1880 In Erie county an additional wing to the asylum for the chronic insane has been erected for men, and steam heating introduced. This asylum, constructed of limestone quar ried on the poor-house farm, has now a capacity for 125 patients of each sex, with central accommodations for the keeper and his family, and for offices and reception rooms, and it is planned so as to separate the sexes, and to secure classification. A building for a wash-house, laundry, etc., is greatly needed, and it will probably soon be erected. 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.