STATE ASYLUM FOR INEBRIATES.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIV, Issue 3382, 19 May 1868, Page 3

STATE ASYLUM FOR INEBRIATES.

*SKJ* *?*•* ■■-«■* - b» spent in grapple? with the •effects <>E rtrur.k*nnen,*whethpr*omt> might n>t be #P 7 I ' u tpwkti "8 the fertile «a««aof ao mttoli misery •■O^wrong f It- it is.onoe proved diaea e, capable of Dareyit i« robbed of muoh of its am and shame. It ahpult beoniKt>vd«OT7 on all to deliver up to the o»re of tnt *ifyfdi& e*»ery known inebriate, wtietb^r man OTovomaO: Stait^once with the tleteniiitiktiou to make the a«ylum self-supporting ; let all!, wi o ut* WU pay for their inamtetiaaoe ia it.; let kh« time amitalentnof every member t<e made tbsnberve the go *d of the whole. It' won d noon prove itself the chea|>Mt institution city «>r town ever k*>evr ; Would do •miicb;AtPW»riailßM«*ning l the ne d for pnbdiift, lunatio aayluma. and a p*mt«c population. Itdggot the»« crude thoaghti, praying the good: and^kind- caenlwho devote *o mjoh time andj-meanji, to.i<re*t<-r« the; outO4st, m«y give it their earnest thought. —l atn, *0., , a Woman. ,

l"The ttewYof k Stf«tea Aaylam for Inebriates ii declared to-be remkrkubljr ■nooe-iful,. both «w to the willing*!** of intbria'rt grti-rally to «-nter it, and in oor*ti«« eff-ct«. It is » hkodsome Gothic buiidiQK mm Binghampton, with chapel, library, gymuft■irtifl, t.illia.d-rodmiti and onniervatoriea T There are 660 aore*of; vr^uodtt belonging Joit, Th'bnil.iiDg mm grouod«ihav% gnnt fIOU. 000 d illan. The corner •iort< wa« l«d in 1868, m the preMoc* of Edward K.Tt-rett ao',i other (iMtinguioheil gentlemen.' Dr Day itoi auperintendeDt, an eminent pby»n ian, hHi fuutid '40 need of «e"ert< restraint* for hu patieuU, ''