The data in the ledgers are arranged chronologically by year of admission, but not always in order of month or day. The ledgers labelled County Book A and County Book B list patients admitted to and discharged from the Monroe County Insane Asylum from its establishment in 1857 through June 1891, when operation of the asylum was taken over by the State of New York. The alphabetical arrangement of the certificates has been retained. Due to deterioration of the original binders, the records have been removed, placed in folders, and boxed. The certificates were originally pasted to sheets of paper that were filed alphabetically by patient name in a two-ring leather binder. Although an extensive collection, there is not a certificate for every patient admitted to the County or State asylums during this period. The bulk of these certificates date from the 1870s and 1880s, though a few date from the mid-1860s. The certificates of lunacy in this collection pertain to patients committed to the Monroe County Insane Asylum.
Medical Certificates of Lunacy were generally required for the commitment of patients to insane asylums in New York State during much of the the 19th century. This collection comprises nine ledgers and seven document boxes occupying nine linear feet. They were reprocessed in the autumn of 2009. The Records of the Monroe County Insane Asylum were acquired with those of the Rochester State Hospital in 1977.
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They include a single volume of Board of Trustees minutes (1889-1891), a fairly extensive collection of Medical Certificates of Lunacy, full admission & discharge records between 18, and clinical records for the years 1885-1891. The Records of the Monroe County Insane Asylum are not comprehensive. The County of Monroe took advantage of this option, and on Jthe Monroe County Insane Asylum became the Rochester State Hospital. In those counties where asylums already existed, the State offered to buy them from the counties and operate them under State management. In 1890 the New York State Legislature passed a bill providing for the establishment of state-run psychiatric hospitals in various parts of the state. Until July 1891, the Monroe County Insane Asylum operated as a county-funded institution under the direct supervision of a physician-superintendant and the indirect supervision of the Superintendent of the Poor. By 1862 the number of patients admitted to the Asylum necessitated the erection of a separate building. This addition was called the Monroe County Insane Asylum. In 1857 a new wing was added to the Alms House for the care of the mentally ill. Under direction of the Superintendent of the Poor, the Alms House provided shelter for county residents who were destitute and unable to care for themselves. To manage this problem, the County established the Alms House in 1826.
Monroe County Insane Asylum (1857-1891) Introductionīy 1826 the population of Monroe County was large enough for the number of poor and indigent to become a concern to County government.
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