MANHATTAN STATE HOSPITAL. William A. Keener, President... Mrs. Francis P. Kinnicutt. KINGS PARK STATE HOSPITAL. John Thatcher, President... Silas B. Dutcher... Miss Helen M. McKeen. Rochester . Rochester . Rochester . Rochester . Rochester Rochester Rochester New York City New York City New York City New York City .New York City . Brooklyn : Brooklyn .Northport .. Brooklyn Brooklyn EXTRACTS FROM THE BY-LAWS OF THE STATE CHARITIES AID COMMITTEE ON THE INSANE. It shall be the duty of the Committee on the Insane: 1. To keep itself informed of the number and condition of all dependent insane persons in the State of New York. 2. To devise means for alleviating the mental and physical sufferings and for contributing to the comfort and welfare of these afflicted persons. 3. To obtain for them in State hospitals, medical treatment by skilled alienists, trained nurses and a high grade of attendants; as also to secure for them the highest standard of curative treatment known to the medical profession. 4. To inaugurate and maintain, for convalescents leaving hospital, who may be friendless, a system of "after-care," whereby they may be strengthened in health, protected and cared for, until able to support themselves. 5. The committee shall advocate, for the benefit of all classes of patients, the system of State care in State hospitals for the dependent insane, as opposed to the system of county care in county poorhouses and county asylums. XVIII. VISITORS TO STATE INSTITUTIONS. There shall be visitors of the Association for all charitable institutions owned by the State, in the State of New York, includ ing State hospitals for the insane, whose duty it shall be to visit, inspect and examine, on behalf of the Association, the institutions to which they are assigned; and to cooperate, as far as may be practicable, with the managers and superintendents in promoting the welfare of the inmates of these institutions. Visitors shall correspond with and shall make monthly and annual reports to the secretary of the Association. They shall work under the control and by the direction of the board of managers. XIX. REPORTS. The Association shall make an annual report of the results of its visits and inspections to the State Board of Charities, upon matters relating to the institutions subject to the visitation of the board; and an annual report to the State Commission in Lunacy upon matters relating to the institutions subject to inspection or control by the commission. These reports shall be made on or before the first day of November for each preceding fiscal year. The report to the State Board of Charities shall include the treasurer's report. (Chapter 546, Laws of New York, 1896.) APPENDIX D. CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION OF STATE CHARITIES ÁID ASSO CIATION. We, the undersigned, being of full age and citizens and residents of the State of New York, do hereby associate ourselves together to form an incorporation under the provisions of chapter 319 of the Session Laws of New York of the year 1848, and of the acts amendatory of the same. We do further certify that the name or title by which the society is to be known in law is the "State Charities Aid Association;" that its principal place of business is in the city of New York; that its particular business and objects are: (1) To aid and promote the improvement of the mental, moral, and physical condition of the inmates of all public charitable institutions in the State, and in particular of State institutions, county poorhouses and city almshouses; (2) to aid directly or through its local committees, in the care of destitute adults and destitute, neglected and other children needing care, by placing them in families and by exercising an oversight over those who have been placed in families, and by such other methods as from time to time may seem to be desirable;* (3) to induce the adoption by the community at large of such measures in the organization and administration of both public and private charity as may develop the self-respect and increase the power of self-support of the poorer classes in society; that the number of its trustees, directors, or managers, is fifteen, and that their names for the first year of the society's existence are Louisa Lee Schuyler, Howard Potter, Gertrude S. Rice, Theodore W. Dwight, Laura d'Orémieulx, James Gallatin, Florence Bayard Lockwood, D. Willis James, Elizabeth C. Hobson, John Crosby Brown, Sophie * Added by supplementary certificate, adopted by the Association January 8, 1900, approved by the State Board of Charities, January 30, 1900, approved by a Justice of the Supreme Court February 9, 1900, and duly filed as required by law. |