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The alarming increase of insanity

May 10, 1873 - New York Times

The number of the insane in New-Jersey has become so great that the authorities there are in much trouble to effectually care for them. The asylum at Trenton is crowded to excess, and the county asylums are rapidly filling up. At the meeting of the Essex County authorities on Thursday, the physicaian of the county asylum reported that they had ninety-eight patients at Trenton and seventy-two in the Newark Asylum, this number increasing at the rate of about five per month and threatening in a short time to overcrowd that building. The State autorities are also pushing forward the work on the new asylum at Morristown, where 250 men are at work in building, excatvating, and quarrying, and it is hoped to have one wing completed so as to be ready for use in June, 1874.The building, when completed, will measure 1,244 feet in a direct line, from the extreme of one wing to the other, and the length of the walls front and rearm is about one and one-fifth miles. This building, when ready, it is hoped will furnish all the needed accommodation, although the county asylums will then be abandoned; and if the insane increase as fast as the returns from Essex indicate, it will be nearly or quite full in a very short time.

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