Overview of the Records
Repository:
New York State Archives
New York State Education Department
Cultural Education Center
Albany, NY 12230
Summary:
This series consists of an extensive letter from the Superintendent, Rome State Custodial Asylum, to Miss Ruth F. Leonard,
Vassar College.The letter concerns the Superintendent's position on "colonization" of patients in an early outpatient 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.
Creator:
Title:
Cover letter and memo concerning "colonization,"
Quantity:
0.25 cubic feet
Inclusive Dates:
1917
Series Number:
A0423