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New York State Asylum For Idiots, Thirty-Fourth Annual Report Of The Trustees, For The Year 1884
The pro­vision made for these boys upon this farm was a new feature in the history of the institution, and the experience of the year at this place has proved eminently satisfactory in all respects, their occu­pation at farm work being desirable, and a kind to which they can adapt themselves better and easier than almost any other....
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Title: New York State Asylum For Idiots, Thirty-Fourth Annual Report Of The Trustees, For The Year 1884
Creator: n/a
Date: January 15, 1885
Format: Annual Report
Source: Steve Taylor Collection
Keywords: Agriculture; Albany, NY; Asylums; Children; Cognitive Disability; Doctors; Economics; Education; Educational Institutions; Government; Government Agencies; Hervey B. Wilbur; Idiocy; Institutions; Labor; Labor & Commerce; Laws & Regulation; Legislation; Medical Professionals; Medicine; Medicine & Science; New York; New York State Asylum For Idiots; Policy; Politics; Public Welfare; Schools; Sexuality; Social Welfare & Communities; Statistics; Syracuse, NY; Work
Topics: Government, Policy & Law; Institutions, Organizations & Corporations; Social Movements & Advocacy