Scope and Content Note
This series consists of an extensive letter from Charles Bernstein, M.D., Superintendent, Rome State Custodial Asylum, to Miss Ruth F. Leonard, Vassar College. The letter's enclosure concerns the position of the superintendent on "colonization" of patients in an early out-patient alternative, specifically the examples practiced at Rome and the self-sufficient quality and profit-making character of the trial programs as a viable alternative to the institutionalization of patients practiced elsewhere.
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